Kernel should decrements the reference count of acpi device when the scheduling of acpi hotplug work is failed, and evaluates _OST to notify BIOS the failure.
v2: To simplify the code. (Andy Shevchenko) Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <[email protected]> --- drivers/acpi/bus.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c index 34fbe02..91adb71 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c @@ -427,12 +427,17 @@ static void acpi_bus_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 type, void *data) (driver->flags & ACPI_DRIVER_ALL_NOTIFY_EVENTS)) driver->ops.notify(adev, type); - if (hotplug_event && ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_hotplug_schedule(adev, type))) - return; + if (hotplug_event) { + if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_hotplug_schedule(adev, type))) + return; + goto err_put_device; + } acpi_bus_put_acpi_device(adev); return; + err_put_device: + acpi_bus_put_acpi_device(adev); err: acpi_evaluate_ost(handle, type, ost_code, NULL); } -- 2.10.2

