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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:18 PM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@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.
>
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
> Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

> ---
> 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
>

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