On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:28:37PM +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote: > Deletion of subdevice will remove device properties associated to parent > when they share the same firmware node after commit 478573c93abd ("driver > core: Don't leak secondary fwnode on device removal"). This was observed > with a driver adding subdevice that driver wasn't able to read device > properties after rmmod/modprobe cycle. > > Consider the lifecycle of it: > > parent device registration > ACPI_COMPANION_SET() > device_add_properties() > pset_copy_set() > set_secondary_fwnode(dev, &p->fwnode) > device_add() > > parent probe > read device properties > ACPI_COMPANION_SET(subdevice, ACPI_COMPANION(parent)) > device_add(subdevice) > > parent remove > device_del(subdevice) > device_remove_properties() > set_secondary_fwnode(dev, NULL); > pset_free() > > Parent device will have its primary firmware node pointing to an ACPI node > and secondary firmware node point to device properties. > ACPI_COMPANION_SET() call in parent probe will set the subdevice's firmware > node to point to the same 'struct fwnode_handle' and the associated > secondary firmware node, i.e. the device properties as the parent. > > When subdevice is deleted in parent remove that will remove those device > properties and attempt to read device properties in next parent probe call > will fail. > > Fix this by tracking the owner device of device properties and delete them > only when owner device is being deleted. > > Fixes: 478573c93abd ("driver core: Don't leak secondary fwnode on device removal") > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.9+ > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/base/property.c | 15 +++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/property.c b/drivers/base/property.c > index d0b65bbe7e15..21fcc13013a5 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/property.c > +++ b/drivers/base/property.c > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > #include <linux/phy.h> > > struct property_set { > + struct device *dev; > struct fwnode_handle fwnode; > const struct property_entry *properties; > }; > @@ -891,6 +892,7 @@ static struct property_set *pset_copy_set(const struct property_set *pset) > void device_remove_properties(struct device *dev) > { > struct fwnode_handle *fwnode; > + struct property_set *pset; > > fwnode = dev_fwnode(dev); > if (!fwnode) > @@ -900,16 +902,16 @@ void device_remove_properties(struct device *dev) > * the pset. If there is no real firmware node (ACPI/DT) primary > * will hold the pset. > */ > - if (is_pset_node(fwnode)) { > + pset = to_pset_node(fwnode); > + if (pset) { > set_primary_fwnode(dev, NULL); > - pset_free_set(to_pset_node(fwnode)); > } else { > - fwnode = fwnode->secondary; > - if (!IS_ERR(fwnode) && is_pset_node(fwnode)) { > + pset = to_pset_node(fwnode->secondary); > + if (pset && dev == pset->dev) > set_secondary_fwnode(dev, NULL); > - pset_free_set(to_pset_node(fwnode)); > - } > } > + if (pset && dev == pset->dev) > + pset_free_set(pset); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_remove_properties); > > @@ -938,6 +940,7 @@ int device_add_properties(struct device *dev, > > p->fwnode.ops = &pset_fwnode_ops; > set_secondary_fwnode(dev, &p->fwnode); > + p->dev = dev; Don't you also need to increment the reference counter here? Or how is it assured that it will not go away? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html