Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] drivers: base: Add tests showing devm handling inconsistencies

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 09:28:47AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 08:34:03AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This follows the discussion here:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230324123157.bbwvfq4gsxnlnfwb@houat/
> > > 
> > > This shows a couple of inconsistencies with regard to how device-managed
> > > resources are cleaned up. Basically, devm resources will only be cleaned up
> > > if the device is attached to a bus and bound to a driver. Failing any of
> > > these cases, a call to device_unregister will not end up in the devm
> > > resources being released.
> > > 
> > > We had to work around it in DRM to provide helpers to create a device for
> > > kunit tests, but the current discussion around creating similar, generic,
> > > helpers for kunit resumed interest in fixing this.
> > > 
> > > This can be tested using the command:
> > > ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig=drivers/base/test/
> > > 
> > > I added the fix David suggested back in that discussion which does fix
> > > the tests. The SoB is missing, since David didn't provide it back then.
> > > 
> > > Let me know what you think,
> > > Maxime
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Ping?
> 
> It's in my review queue, still trying to catch up...

I didn't make it here this week, sorry.  I kind of worry about encoding
the current "odd" functionality in a test as being the correct thing,
but will look at it closer next week.

thanks,

greg k-h