Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: fix the cleanup of struct tpm_chip

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:19:51AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:26:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 05:30:30AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > If the initialization fails before tpm_chip_register(), put_device()
> > > will be not called, which causes release callback not to be called.
> > > This patch fixes the issue by adding put_device() to devres list of
> > > the parent device.
> > 
> > Erm, if you do this, then shouldn't the device_unregister change to
> > device_del to keep the kref balanced?
> 
> Yes, it should. Weird, I added pr_info() (temporarily) to
> tpm_dev_release() and did occur only once and no crashes whatsoever.
> 
> Anyway, you're right.

Update:

https://github.com/jsakkine/linux-tpmdd/commit/a1aa547bbd2178628df798c27abaad073acb2441

I tested that the release gets called (as a sanity check).

Ack?

/Jarkko