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. Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <[email protected]> Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]> Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"") Cc: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <[email protected]> --- lib/kobject.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 65fa7bf70c57..32432036bef8 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -599,14 +599,7 @@ int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_move); -/** - * kobject_del() - Unlink kobject from hierarchy. - * @kobj: object. - * - * This is the function that should be called to delete an object - * successfully added via kobject_add(). - */ -void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) +static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) { struct kernfs_node *sd; const struct kobj_type *ktype; @@ -625,9 +618,23 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) kobj->state_in_sysfs = 0; kobj_kset_leave(kobj); - kobject_put(kobj->parent); kobj->parent = NULL; } + +/** + * kobject_del() - Unlink kobject from hierarchy. + * @kobj: object. + * + * This is the function that should be called to delete an object + * successfully added via kobject_add(). + */ +void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) +{ + struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; + + __kobject_del(kobj); + kobject_put(parent); +} EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_del); /** @@ -663,6 +670,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero); */ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) { + struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; struct kobj_type *t = get_ktype(kobj); const char *name = kobj->name; @@ -684,7 +692,7 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) if (kobj->state_in_sysfs) { pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): auto cleanup kobject_del\n", kobject_name(kobj), kobj); - kobject_del(kobj); + __kobject_del(kobj); } if (t && t->release) { @@ -698,6 +706,8 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) pr_debug("kobject: '%s': free name\n", name); kfree_const(name); } + + kobject_put(parent); } #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE -- 2.26.2
