On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:41:07PM +0100, Herve Codina wrote: > Hi, +Saravana for comment Looks okay to me though. > > In the following sequence: > of_platform_depopulate(); /* Remove devices from a DT overlay node */ > of_overlay_remove(); /* Remove the DT overlay node itself */ > > Some warnings are raised by __of_changeset_entry_destroy() which was > called from of_overlay_remove(): > ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2 ... > > The issue is that, during the device devlink removals triggered from the > of_platform_depopulate(), jobs are put in a workqueue. > These jobs drop the reference to the devices. When a device is no more > referenced (refcount == 0), it is released and the reference to its > of_node is dropped by a call to of_node_put(). > These operations are fully correct except that, because of the > workqueue, they are done asynchronously with respect to function calls. > > In the sequence provided, the jobs are run too late, after the call to > __of_changeset_entry_destroy() and so a missing of_node_put() call is > detected by __of_changeset_entry_destroy(). > > This series fixes this issue introducing device_link_wait_removal() in > order to wait for the end of jobs execution (patch 1) and using this > function to synchronize the overlay removal with the end of jobs > execution (patch 2). > > Best regards, > Hervé > > Herve Codina (2): > driver core: Introduce device_link_wait_removal() > of: overlay: Synchronize of_overlay_remove() with the devlink removals > > drivers/base/core.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- > drivers/of/overlay.c | 6 ++++++ > include/linux/device.h | 1 + > 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.42.0 >
