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SubjectRe: Resend [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: invalidate parent when freed resource has childs
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 03:45:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:38 PM Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In theory, child may have siblings. Would it be possible to have several
>> devices under xhci-hcd?
>
>I'm less interested in the xhci-hcd case - which I certainly *hope* is
>fixed already? - than in "if this happens somewhere else".
>

Agree, this is what I want to say.

>So if we do want to remove the parent (which may be a good idea with a
>warning), and want to make sure that the children are really removed
>from the resource hierarchy, we should do somethiing like
>
> static bool detach_children(struct resource *res)
> {
> res = res->child;
> if (!res)
> return false;
> do {
> res->parent = NULL;
> res = res->sibling;
> } while (res);
> return true;
> }
>
>and then we could write the __release_region() warning as
>
> /* You should not release a resource that has children */
> WARN_ON_ONCE(detach_children(res));
>

I am thinking about why this could happen.

To guard the core kernel code, it looks reasonable.

>or something?
>
>NOTE! The above is entirely untested, and written purely in my mail
>reader. It might be seriously buggy, including not compiling, or doing
>odd things. See it more as a "maybe something like this" code snippet
>example than any kind of final form.
>
> Linus

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