On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 04:14:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 5/13/20 2:30 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:18 AM Heikki Krogerus > > <[email protected]> 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. > >> > >> 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]> > > > > Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]> > > Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]> > > > > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Thanks guys. Sorry about the mix-up. Br, -- heikki
