To maintain consistency with software_node_unregister_nodes(), reverse the order in which the software_node_unregister_node_group() function unregisters nodes. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <djrscally@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v3 - Fixed the dereference of the terminating NULL entry - Comment cleanup drivers/base/swnode.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c index ade49173ff8d..2d07eb04c6c8 100644 --- a/drivers/base/swnode.c +++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c @@ -779,16 +779,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(software_node_register_node_group); * software_node_unregister_node_group - Unregister a group of software nodes * @node_group: NULL terminated array of software node pointers to be unregistered * - * Unregister multiple software nodes at once. + * Unregister multiple software nodes at once. The array will be unwound in + * reverse order (i.e. last entry first) and thus if any member of the array + * has its .parent member set then they should appear later in the array such + * that they are unregistered first. */ void software_node_unregister_node_group(const struct software_node **node_group) { - unsigned int i; + unsigned int i = 0; if (!node_group) return; - for (i = 0; node_group[i]; i++) + while (node_group[i]) + i++; + + while (i--) software_node_unregister(node_group[i]); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(software_node_unregister_node_group); -- 2.25.1