On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:17:54PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 04:20:55PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 08:47:01PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:30:43PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 08:19:42PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 11:44:17AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 05:34:16PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > [snip] > > > Looking at the offending patch, it effectively replaces a call to > > > device_add_properties() with one to > > > device_create_managed_software_node(), and those two functions appear > > > quite different - at least at first glance. > > > Is that correct? > > > > The only real difference between the two functions is that > > device_create_managed_software_node() marks the software node it > > creates (and it does it exactly the same way as > > device_add_properties()) as "managed" with a specific flag. > > > That managed flag makes all the difference. I've tried to find a fix along the same lines as Laurentiu Tudor's 5aeb05b27f8 software node: balance refcount for managed software nodes but haven't found anything that works. What does work for me is to revert the call to device_create_managed_software_node() to a call to device_add_properties(): diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index 652531f67135..2f30bdb94fab 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -826,8 +826,7 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full( goto err; if (pdevinfo->properties) { - ret = device_create_managed_software_node(&pdev->dev, - pdevinfo->properties, NULL); + ret = device_add_properties(&pdev->dev, pdevinfo->properties); if (ret) goto err; } That obviously wont work with your latest series that removes device_add_properties(), but that is the simplest, and only, solution that I've found so far. Cheers, Kent.