[PATCH v1] kobject: make sure parent is not released before children

[Brendan Higgins]

From: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Previously, kobjects were released before the associated kobj_types;
this can cause a kobject deallocation to fail when the kobject has
children; an example of this is in software_node_unregister_nodes(); it
calls release on the parent before children meaning that children can be
released after the parent, which may be needed for removal.

So, take a reference to the parent before we delete a node to ensure
that the parent is not released before the children.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/CAFd5g44s5NQvT8TG_x4rwbqoa7zWzkV0TX+ETZoQdOB7OwXCPQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m71f37f3985f2abd7209c8ca8e0fa4edc45e171d6
Co-developed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

This patch is based on the diff written by Heikki linked above.

Heikki, can you either reply with a Signed-off-by? Otherwise, I can
resend with me as the author and I will list you as the Co-developed-by.

Sorry for all the CCs: I just want to make sure everyone who was a party
to the original bug sees this.

---
 lib/kobject.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 83198cb37d8d..5921e2470b46 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero);
  */
 static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
+	struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent;
 	struct kobj_type *t = get_ktype(kobj);
 	const char *name = kobj->name;
 
@@ -680,6 +681,9 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
 		kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
 	}
 
+	/* make sure the parent is not released before the (last) child */
+	kobject_get(parent);
+
 	/* remove from sysfs if the caller did not do it */
 	if (kobj->state_in_sysfs) {
 		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): auto cleanup kobject_del\n",
@@ -693,6 +697,8 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
 		t->release(kobj);
 	}
 
+	kobject_put(parent);
+
 	/* free name if we allocated it */
 	if (name) {
 		pr_debug("kobject: '%s': free name\n", name);

base-commit: 8632e9b5645bbc2331d21d892b0d6961c1a08429
-- 
2.26.0.110.g2183baf09c-goog