linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children

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Message-ID: <CAFd5g46npUaVOu9+xvLqw=DhCccuzOLpFLn1+8Qc8Un0AALThg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 13:18:38 -0700
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released
 before its children

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:18 AM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> In the function kobject_cleanup(), kobject_del(kobj) is
> called before the kobj->release(). That makes it possible to
> release the parent of the kobject before the kobject itself.
>
> To fix that, adding function __kboject_del() that does
> everything that kobject_del() does except release the parent
> reference. kobject_cleanup() then calls __kobject_del()
> instead of kobject_del(), and separately decrements the
> reference count of the parent kobject after kobj->release()
> has been called.

I was starting to wonder if anything else needed to happen with this. :-)

Thanks for taking care of this!

> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
> Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>

Didn't I and someone else test this?

Either way, I will test this out in a little bit.

Thanks!