This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
driver core: Reject pointless SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links
to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From f729a592adb6760013c3e48622a5bf256b992452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:05:49 -0700
Subject: driver core: Reject pointless SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links
SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links intentionally allow cycles because cyclic
sync_state() dependencies are valid and necessary.
However a SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link where the consumer and the supplier
are the same device is pointless because the device link would be deleted
as soon as the device probes (because it's also the consumer) and won't
affect when the sync_state() callback is called. It's a waste of CPU cycles
and memory to create this device link. So reject any attempts to create
such a device link.
Fixes: 05ef983e0d65 ("driver core: Add device link support for SYNC_STATE_ONLY flag")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210929190549.860541-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 15986cc2fe5e..249da496581a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -687,7 +687,8 @@ struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer,
{
struct device_link *link;
- if (!consumer || !supplier || flags & ~DL_ADD_VALID_FLAGS ||
+ if (!consumer || !supplier || consumer == supplier ||
+ flags & ~DL_ADD_VALID_FLAGS ||
(flags & DL_FLAG_STATELESS && flags & DL_MANAGED_LINK_FLAGS) ||
(flags & DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY &&
(flags & ~DL_FLAG_INFERRED) != DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY) ||
--
2.33.0
