kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children
authorHeikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 13 May 2020 15:18:40 +0000 (18:18 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 21 May 2020 09:01:27 +0000 (11:01 +0200)
commit4ef12f7198023c09ad6d25b652bd8748c965c7fa
treea1ad8224cf083ca0645195dec3fd451eb45ef56a
parent44e960490ddf868fc9135151c4a658936e771dc2
kobject: Make sure the parent does not get released before its children

In the function kobject_cleanup(), kobject_del(kobj) is
called before the kobj->release(). That makes it possible to
release the parent of the kobject before the kobject itself.

To fix that, adding function __kboject_del() that does
everything that kobject_del() does except release the parent
reference. kobject_cleanup() then calls __kobject_del()
instead of kobject_del(), and separately decrements the
reference count of the parent kobject after kobj->release()
has been called.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200513151840.36400-1-heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/kobject.c