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SubjectRe: [PATCH] software node: recursively unregister child swnodes
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:57:01PM -0700, Jordan Hand wrote:
> On 6/4/20 1:15 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:36:23PM -0700, jorhand@linux.microsoft.com wrote:
> > > From: Jordan Hand <jorhand@linux.microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > If a child swnode is unregistered after it's parent, it can lead to
> > > undefined behavior.
> >
> > Crashing the system is not really "undefined" :)
>
> Fair point :)
>
> >
> > > When a swnode is unregistered, recursively free it's children to avoid
> > > this condition.
> >
> > Are you sure? Why would you be unregistering a child after it's parent?
> > Why not just do not do that?
> >
>
> The main motivation for doing this was to support
> `software_node_unregister_nodes` so that the passed list of nodes does not
> need to be ordered in any particular way.
>
> I suppose another way to do this would be to add a new function
> `fwnode_remove_software_node_recursive` and just call that from
> `software_node_unregister_nodes`.
>
> That said, I suppose just ordering the nodes so that children come before
> parents would also be fine. My thinking was just that accepting any node
> ordering is simpler.

Right now, the way the driver model and sysfs/kobjects work is that all
objects must be removed in child-first order. The problem of your
change where you want to try to remove the devices in parent-first order
is that you do not really know if you still have a reference to a child
device somewhere else, which would prevent this all from happening
correctly, right?

So if you "know" it is safe to drop a child, that's great, and expected.
Don't work to make this one tiny user of the kobjects (which I'm still
not quite sure why they are kobjects and not devices), do things in a
different way from the rest of the kernel without a strong reason to do
so.

thanks,

greg k-h

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