On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 05:05:13PM +0800, zhangfei wrote: > Hi, Greg > > On 2019/8/28 下午11:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 09:27:56PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote: > > > +struct uacce { > > > + const char *drv_name; > > > + const char *algs; > > > + const char *api_ver; > > > + unsigned int flags; > > > + unsigned long qf_pg_start[UACCE_QFRT_MAX]; > > > + struct uacce_ops *ops; > > > + struct device *pdev; > > > + bool is_vf; > > > + u32 dev_id; > > > + struct cdev cdev; > > > + struct device dev; > > > + void *priv; > > > + atomic_t state; > > > + int prot; > > > + struct mutex q_lock; > > > + struct list_head qs; > > > +}; > > At a quick glance, this problem really stood out to me. You CAN NOT > > have two different objects within a structure that have different > > lifetime rules and reference counts. You do that here with both a > > 'struct cdev' and a 'struct device'. Pick one or the other, but never > > both. > > > > I would recommend using a 'struct device' and then a 'struct cdev *'. > > That way you get the advantage of using the driver model properly, and > > then just adding your char device node pointer to "the side" which > > interacts with this device. > > > > Then you might want to call this "struct uacce_device" :) > > Here the 'struct cdev' and 'struct device' have the same lifetime and > refcount. No they do not, that's impossible as refcounts are incremented from different places (i.e. userspace). > They are allocated with uacce when uacce_register and freed when > uacce_unregister. And that will not work. > > To make it clear, how about adding this. > > +static void uacce_release(struct device *dev) > +{ > + struct uacce *uacce = UACCE_FROM_CDEV_ATTR(dev); > + > + idr_remove(&uacce_idr, uacce->dev_id); > + kfree(uacce); > +} > + > static int uacce_create_chrdev(struct uacce *uacce) > { > int ret; > @@ -819,6 +827,7 @@ static int uacce_create_chrdev(struct uacce *uacce) > uacce->dev.class = uacce_class; > uacce->dev.groups = uacce_dev_attr_groups; > uacce->dev.parent = uacce->pdev; > + uacce->dev.release = uacce_release; You have to have a release function today, otherwise you will get nasty kernel messages from the log. I don't know why you aren't seeing that already. > dev_set_name(&uacce->dev, "%s-%d", uacce->drv_name, uacce->dev_id); > ret = cdev_device_add(&uacce->cdev, &uacce->dev); > if (ret) > @@ -835,7 +844,7 @@ static int uacce_create_chrdev(struct uacce *uacce) > static void uacce_destroy_chrdev(struct uacce *uacce) > { > cdev_device_del(&uacce->cdev, &uacce->dev); > - idr_remove(&uacce_idr, uacce->dev_id); > + put_device(&uacce->dev); > } > > static int uacce_dev_match(struct device *dev, void *data) > @@ -1042,8 +1051,6 @@ void uacce_unregister(struct uacce *uacce) > uacce_destroy_chrdev(uacce); > > mutex_unlock(&uacce_mutex); > - > - kfree(uacce); > } > > > uacce_destroy_chrdev->put_device(&uacce->dev)->uacce_release->kfree(uacce). > > And find there are many examples in driver/ > $ grep -rn cdev_device_add drivers/ > drivers/rtc/class.c:362: err = cdev_device_add(&rtc->char_dev, > &rtc->dev); > rivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:1181: status = cdev_device_add(&gdev->chrdev, > &gdev->dev); > drivers/soc/qcom/rmtfs_mem.c:223: ret = > cdev_device_add(&rmtfs_mem->cdev, &rmtfs_mem->dev); > drivers/input/joydev.c:989: error = cdev_device_add(&joydev->cdev, > &joydev->dev); > drivers/input/mousedev.c:907: error = cdev_device_add(&mousedev->cdev, > &mousedev->dev); > drivers/input/evdev.c:1419: error = cdev_device_add(&evdev->cdev, > &evdev->dev); Are you sure these all have the full structures inbedded in them? > > like drivers/input/evdev.c, > evdev is alloced with initialization of dev and cdev, > and evdev is freed in release ops evdev_free > struct evdev { > struct device dev; > struct cdev cdev; > ~ Ick, that too is totally wrong and needs to be fixed. Please don't copy incorrect code, that's why we review stuff :) thanks, greg k-h