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Message-ID: <39147ed6f3ece627ee0c18d90e00b37e636553f2.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:21:02 +0100
From: Nuno Sá <noname.nuno@...il.com>
To: Herve Codina <herve.codina@...tlin.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Rob
 Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
 Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@....com>, Max Zhen <max.zhen@....com>, Sonal Santan
 <sonal.santan@....com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...inx.com>,
  Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Allan Nielsen
 <allan.nielsen@...rochip.com>, Horatiu Vultur
 <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>, Steen Hegelund
 <steen.hegelund@...rochip.com>, Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com>,
 Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@...log.com>, Thomas Petazzoni
 <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,  stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] of: dynamic: Synchronize of_changeset_destroy()
 with the devlink removals

On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 09:50 +0100, Herve Codina wrote:
> In the following sequence:
>   1) of_platform_depopulate()
>   2) of_overlay_remove()
> 
> During the step 1, devices are destroyed and devlinks are removed.
> During the step 2, OF nodes are destroyed but
> __of_changeset_entry_destroy() can raise warnings related to missing
> of_node_put():
>   ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2 ...
> 
> Indeed, during the devlink removals performed at step 1, the removal
> itself releasing the device (and the attached of_node) is done by a job
> queued in a workqueue and so, it is done asynchronously with respect to
> function calls.
> When the warning is present, of_node_put() will be called but wrongly
> too late from the workqueue job.
> 
> In order to be sure that any ongoing devlink removals are done before
> the of_node destruction, synchronize the of_changeset_destroy() with the
> devlink removals.
> 
> Fixes: 80dd33cf72d1 ("drivers: base: Fix device link removal")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@...tlin.com>
> ---

LGTM

Reviewed-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@...log.com>

>  drivers/of/dynamic.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/dynamic.c b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
> index 3bf27052832f..169e2a9ae22f 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/dynamic.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>  
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt)	"OF: " fmt
>  
> +#include <linux/device.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> @@ -667,6 +668,12 @@ void of_changeset_destroy(struct of_changeset *ocs)
>  {
>  	struct of_changeset_entry *ce, *cen;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Wait for any ongoing device link removals before destroying some
> of
> +	 * nodes.
> +	 */
> +	device_link_wait_removal();
> +
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(ce, cen, &ocs->entries, node)
>  		__of_changeset_entry_destroy(ce);
>  }


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