linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 05/14] power: reset: reboot-mode: Expose sysfs for registered reboot

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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:40:08 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
To: Shivendra Pratap <shivendra.pratap@....qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 05/14] power: reset: reboot-mode: Expose sysfs for
 registered reboot_modes

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 21:40, Shivendra Pratap
<shivendra.pratap@....qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > If you're using devres here - at least make it obvious by adding the
> > devm_ prefix to the function name and make it take an explicit struct
> > device * parameter so that it's clear who owns the managed resource.
> >
>
> sure. we can add devm_ prefix to the function name.
> reboot->reboot_dev is an internal member of struct reboot_mode_driver *reboot.
> The struct reboot_mode_driver *reboot is owned by the calling driver.
> If we want to PASS reboot->reboot_dev to the devm_ prefixed function call, we
> will need to kind of split create_reboot_mode_device into two calls - device_create
> in a separate function and then call the devm_ prefix function where we add the devres_alloc.
> Can you suggest a bit more on this?
>

Ah, ok I missed the broken logic here. Devres should only be used in
devices already *attached* to a driver as all managed resources will
get released on driver *detach*. What you have here may "work" by
accident but that's not correct and is very fragile as soon as you
have some non-standard behavior or error paths. Devres won't fly here,
please just use regular allocation and free whatever you need in the
corresponding release/free/whatever routine.

Bart