Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] driver core: Avoid endless recursion if device has more than one link

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, June 17, 2016 08:26:56 AM Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This patch fixes endless recursion, which happends when device has
> more than one link.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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 215cd44de761..4e778539b750 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static int device_reorder_to_tail(struct device *dev, void *not_used)
>  	device_pm_move_last(dev);
>  	device_for_each_child(dev, NULL, device_reorder_to_tail);
>  	list_for_each_entry(link, &dev->consumer_links, c_node)
> -		device_reorder_to_tail(link->consumer, NULL);
> +		if (link->consumer != dev)
> +			device_reorder_to_tail(link->consumer, NULL);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 

If I'm not mistaken, this should not be necessary unless dev has a link
pointing to itself as a consumer.  That would be a bug, though.

I can add a WARN_ON() to catch this case, but then if there's a link from
a consumer of dev pointing back to dev as a consumer, that still will loop
forever.

I guess we need to detect circular dependencies and fail link creation in
such cases.  Oh well.

Thanks,
Rafael