On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:13:53PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 06:05:42PM -0800, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > The release-callback is not used before the device is attached to the
> > device hierarchy. This caused resources not to cleanup properly if the
> > device driver initialization failed before tpm_chip_register().
>
> This commentary is not right, the release callback is callable
> immediately after device_initialize returns, it will be called by the
> last put_device().
Ah, right.
> > - * tpmm_chip_alloc() - allocate a new struct tpm_chip instance
> > - * @dev: device to which the chip is associated
> > + * tpmm_chip_alloc() - allocate and initialize a TPM chip
> > + * @pdev: the platform device who is the parent of the chip
>
> ? A platform device is not required, just something in a state that
> can handle devm.
Platform device in a generic sense like like ACPI or PNP device or
something else. How would you call it instead? I want to call the
parameter something else than 'dev' solely for readability.
Would s/the platform device/the parent device/ be better?
> > + /* Associate character device with the platform device only after
> > + * it is properly initialized.
> > + */
> > + dev_set_drvdata(pdev, chip);
> > + devm_add_action(pdev, (void (*)(void *)) tpm_dev_release,
> > &chip->dev);
>
> No, a release function can never be called naked. The action needs
> to do put_device, which is the error unwind for device_initialize().
Got it (already from your first comment)!
What does "called naked" even mean? I just don't understand the
english here and want to be sure that I understand what you are saying
and not make false assumptions.
> > @@ -162,7 +165,10 @@ static int tpm_add_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
> > MINOR(chip->dev.devt), rc);
> >
> > cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
> > - return rc;
> > + } else {
> > + devm_remove_action(chip->dev.parent,
> > + (void (*)(void *)) tpm_dev_release,
> > + &chip->dev);
>
> This is in the wrong place, the devm should be canceled only if
> tpm_chip_register returns success, at that point the caller's contract
> is to guarentee a call to tpm_chip_unregister, and
> tpm_chip_unregister does the put_device that calls the release
> function.
rc == 0 at that point i.e. success. I don't see the problem here.
> Jason
/Jarkko
