[PATCH 5.15.y] drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device
From: Li hongliang
Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 04:40:27 EST
From: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3 ]
In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device
has a bus and has been probed.
This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where
the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference
to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example.
We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to
make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the
device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver.
This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres:
release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit
a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over
memory leaks concerns.
This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to
release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get
the best of both worlds.
Fixes: a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release")
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720-kunit-devm-inconsistencies-test-v3-3-6aa7e074f373@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 4fc62624a95e..683a7c461451 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3604,9 +3604,21 @@ void device_del(struct device *dev)
device_remove_properties(dev);
device_links_purge(dev);
+ /*
+ * If a device does not have a driver attached, we need to clean
+ * up any managed resources. We do this in device_release(), but
+ * it's never called (and we leak the device) if a managed
+ * resource holds a reference to the device. So release all
+ * managed resources here, like we do in driver_detach(). We
+ * still need to do so again in device_release() in case someone
+ * adds a new resource after this point, though.
+ */
+ devres_release_all(dev);
+
if (dev->bus)
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
BUS_NOTIFY_REMOVED_DEVICE, dev);
+
kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev);
kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
--
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