Re: [PATCH] software node: balance refcount for managed sw nodes

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 03:00:17PM +0300, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> On 7/16/2021 8:21 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:17 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:16:02PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> software_node_notify(), on KOBJ_REMOVE drops the refcount twice on managed
> >>> software nodes, thus leading to underflow errors. Balance the refcount by
> >>> bumping it in the device_create_managed_software_node() function.
> >>>
> >>> The error [1] was encountered after adding a .shutdown() op to our
> >>> fsl-mc-bus driver.
> >>
> >> Looking into the history of adding ->shutdown() to dwc3 driver (it got reverted
> >> later on), I can tell that probably something is wrong in the ->shutdown()
> >> method itself.
> > 
> > Isn't the other alternative to just remove the second kobject_put from
> > KOBJ_REMOVE ?
> > 
> 
> Or maybe on top of Heikki's suggestion, replace the calls to
> sysfs_create_link() from KOBJ_ADD with sysfs_create_link_nowarn()?

_noearn will hide the problem. It was there, it was removed from there.
Perhaps we have to understand the root cause better (some specific flow?).

Any insight from you on the flow when the issue appears? I.o.w. what happened
on the big picture that we got into the warning you see?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko