On 5/13/20 1:18 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:18 AM Heikki Krogerus > <heikki.kroge...@linux.intel.com> 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. > > I was starting to wonder if anything else needed to happen with this. :-) > > Thanks for taking care of this! > >> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamb...@linaro.org> >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.c...@intel.com> >> Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify >> software_node_release() function"") >> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhigg...@google.com> >> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> >> Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <raf...@kernel.org> >> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.kroge...@linux.intel.com> > > Didn't I and someone else test this? > > Either way, I will test this out in a little bit. > > Thanks! >
Yes, I tested the earlier patch and acked it. (using lib/test_printf.ko) -- ~Randy