Re: [PATCH 3/5] thermal/core: Remove unneeded mutex_destroy()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jan 19 2023 - 12:21:15 EST


On Thursday, January 19, 2023 5:39:29 PM CET Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 19/01/2023 16:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:13 PM Daniel Lezcano
> > <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 19/01/2023 14:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:48 PM Daniel Lezcano
> >>> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 19/01/2023 13:11, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM Daniel Lezcano
> >>>>> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 19/01/2023 08:41, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 22:11 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >>>>>>>> If the thermal framework fails to initialize, the mutex can be used
> >>>>>>>> by
> >>>>>>>> the different functions registering a thermal zone anyway.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hmm, even with no governors and unregistered thermal sysfs class?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> IMO, thermal APIs for registering a thermal_zone/cooling_device should
> >>>>>>> yield early if thermal_init fails.
> >>>>>>> For other APIs that relies on a valid
> >>>>>>> thermal_zone_device/thermal_cooling_device pointer, nothing needs to
> >>>>>>> be changed.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> what do you think?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think you are right.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It would be nice if we can check if the thermal class is registered and
> >>>>>> bail out if not. But there is no function to check that AFAICS.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Alternatively we can convert the thermal class static structure to a
> >>>>>> pointer and set it to NULL in case of error in thermal_init() ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It doesn't matter if this is a NULL pointer or a static object that's
> >>>>> clearly marked as unused.
> >>>>
> >>>> Without introducing another global variable, is it possible to know if
> >>>> the class is used or not ?
> >>>
> >>> If thermal_class.p is cleared to NULL on class_register() failures in
> >>> thermal_init() (unfortunately, the driver core doesn't do that, but
> >>> maybe it should - let me cut a patch for that), then it can be used
> >>> for that.
> >>
> >> It should be in class_unregister() too, right ?
> >>
> >> And is it possible to add a class_is_registered() ? in order to prevent
> >> accessing class structure internals ?
> >
> > I suppose so.
> >
> > And we'd like it to be used some places like
> > thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(), wouldn't we?
>
> Yes, in thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() and
> thermal_cooling_device_register().

Something like the patch below I think, because thermal_cooling_device_register()
is a wrapper around thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips().

It needs to be split into 2 individual patches.

---
drivers/base/class.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 3 +++
include/linux/device/class.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-pm/include/linux/device/class.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/device/class.h
+++ linux-pm/include/linux/device/class.h
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ struct class_dev_iter {
const struct device_type *type;
};

+static inline bool class_is_registered(struct class *class)
+{
+ return !!class->p;
+}
+
extern struct kobject *sysfs_dev_block_kobj;
extern struct kobject *sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
extern int __must_check __class_register(struct class *class,
Index: linux-pm/drivers/base/class.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/base/class.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ static void class_release(struct kobject

pr_debug("class '%s': release.\n", class->name);

+ class->p = NULL;
+
if (class->class_release)
class->class_release(class);
else
@@ -186,17 +188,21 @@ int __class_register(struct class *cls,
cls->p = cp;

error = kset_register(&cp->subsys);
- if (error) {
- kfree(cp);
- return error;
- }
+ if (error)
+ goto err_out;
+
error = class_add_groups(class_get(cls), cls->class_groups);
class_put(cls);
if (error) {
kobject_del(&cp->subsys.kobj);
kfree_const(cp->subsys.kobj.name);
- kfree(cp);
+ goto err_out;
}
+ return 0;
+
+err_out:
+ cls->p = NULL;
+ kfree(cp);
return error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__class_register);
Index: linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1342,6 +1342,9 @@ thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(
if (num_trips > 0 && (!ops->get_trip_type || !ops->get_trip_temp) && !trips)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

+ if (!class_is_registered(&thermal_class))
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+
tz = kzalloc(sizeof(*tz), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tz)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);