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

[Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>]

On 7/20/2021 1:27 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:22 PM Laurentiu Tudor
> <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com> wrote:
>> On 7/19/2021 3:22 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> 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@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:16:02PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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?
>>
>> I encountered the initial issue when trying to shut down a system booted
>> with ACPI but only after adding a .shutdown() callback to our bus driver
>> so that the devices are properly taken down. The problem was that
>> software_node_notify(), on KOBJ_REMOVE was dropping the reference count
>> twice leading to an underflow error. My initial proposal was to just
>> bump the refcount in device_create_managed_software_node(). The device
>> properties that triggered the problem are created here [1].
>>
>> Heikko suggested that instead of manually incrementing the refcount to
>> use software_node_notify(KOBJ_ADD). This triggered the second issue, a
>> duplicated sysfs entry warning originating in the usb subsystem:
>> device_create_managed_software_node() ends up being called twice, once
>> here [2] and secondly, the place I previous mentioned [1].
> 
> This [3] is what I have reported against DWC3 when ->shutdown() has
> been added there. And here [4] is another thread about the issue with
> that callback. The ->release() callback is called at put_device() [5]
> and ->shutdown() is called before that [6]. That said, can you inspect
> your ->shutdown() implementation once more time and perhaps see if
> there is anything that can be amended?
> 

Will do, thanks for the pointers. It could be that we mess something out
in how we use the driver model.

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Best Regards, Laurentiu