Hi, This follows the discussion here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230324123157.bbwvfq4gsxnlnfwb@houat/ This shows a couple of inconsistencies with regard to how device-managed resources are cleaned up. Basically, devm resources will only be cleaned up if the device is attached to a bus and bound to a driver. Failing any of these cases, a call to device_unregister will not end up in the devm resources being released. We had to work around it in DRM to provide helpers to create a device for kunit tests, but the current discussion around creating similar, generic, helpers for kunit resumed interest in fixing this. This can be tested using the command: ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig=drivers/base/test/ Let me know what you think, Maxime Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Maxime Ripard (2): drivers: base: Add basic devm tests for root devices drivers: base: Add basic devm tests for platform devices drivers/base/test/.kunitconfig | 2 + drivers/base/test/Kconfig | 4 + drivers/base/test/Makefile | 3 + drivers/base/test/platform-device-test.c | 278 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/base/test/root-device-test.c | 120 +++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 407 insertions(+) --- base-commit: a6faf7ea9fcb7267d06116d4188947f26e00e57e change-id: 20230329-kunit-devm-inconsistencies-test-5e5a7d01e60d Best regards, -- Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
