[PATCH v3 05/14] software_node: unregister software_nodes in reverse order

From: Daniel Scally
Date: Wed Dec 23 2020 - 20:11:18 EST


To maintain consistency with software_node_unregister_nodes(), reverse
the order in which the software_node_unregister_node_group() function
unregisters nodes.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <djrscally@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3
- Fixed the dereference of the terminating NULL entry
- Comment cleanup

drivers/base/swnode.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
index ade49173ff8d..2d07eb04c6c8 100644
--- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
+++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
@@ -779,16 +779,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(software_node_register_node_group);
* software_node_unregister_node_group - Unregister a group of software nodes
* @node_group: NULL terminated array of software node pointers to be unregistered
*
- * Unregister multiple software nodes at once.
+ * Unregister multiple software nodes at once. The array will be unwound in
+ * reverse order (i.e. last entry first) and thus if any member of the array
+ * has its .parent member set then they should appear later in the array such
+ * that they are unregistered first.
*/
void software_node_unregister_node_group(const struct software_node **node_group)
{
- unsigned int i;
+ unsigned int i = 0;

if (!node_group)
return;

- for (i = 0; node_group[i]; i++)
+ while (node_group[i])
+ i++;
+
+ while (i--)
software_node_unregister(node_group[i]);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(software_node_unregister_node_group);
--
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