Re: [PATCH net] ptp: vclock: reject failed physical clock samples

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 11:39 PM [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi!

This is an automated message. This series looks like a fix, but its
commit messages seem to be missing some information:

 - How the issue was discovered, e.g. hit in production, hit during
   development, syzbot report, manual code inspection, LLM or static
   analysis tool scan.

Found by tracing PHC read-error handling while working on the larger
stmmac MTU/resume recovery series. Related cleanup issues were found
during follow-up review.

 - Whether the issue was actually triggered, or is only theoretical
   (e.g. found by code inspection). If it was triggered please include
   the symptoms, like the stack trace or error messages.

The failure handling was checked in host tests, including reproduction
of the partial-registration cleanup problem. I have not reproduced a
clock jump or teardown hang with a real PHC in a running kernel.

Please do not repost the series just to address the above. Instead,
reply to this email with the missing information, so that reviewers
can take it into account. If the series needs another revision for
other reasons, please include the information in the commit messages
then.

The evaluation is done by an LLM so it may be wrong, if you think
that is the case please reply and explain.