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Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Tarun Sahu , Stuart Hayes , Laurence Oberman , Bjorn Helgaas , kexec@lists.infradead.org, David Jeffery Subject: [PATCH 1/9] driver core: rely on put_device to free dev->p Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:24:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20260821142414.150892-2-djeffery@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20260821142414.150892-1-djeffery@redhat.com> References: <20260821142414.150892-1-djeffery@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.111 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: M_EFWOjx9LuXEU0c00HOAZBFL1ScLTgsX7oBsBDOd0M_1787322288 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260821_072623_947265_07505CF6 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 13.73 ) X-BeenThere: kexec@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+kexec=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org From: Tarun Sahu device_add allocate private_data for device and assigns to dev->p. If device_add fails in later steps of the function, it cleans up this dev->p which is not necessary because In the next call, put_device free it anyway (if reference to the device is 0 which will be unless someone concurrently get the reference to this device). This avoids unnecessary races introduced in system. After device is added in device_kset->list by device_add and later steps in the device_add function failures occur, it will free dev->p manually, while in between there might be a user of device_kset->list will take reference to the device just added by device_add. and might try to access dev->p. So relying on put_device to free dev->p prevents such problem. Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu Signed-off-by: David Jeffery Tested-by: Laurence Oberman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 4c0c373998a1..83263e3fa5d4 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -2618,6 +2618,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj) struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj); struct device_private *p = dev->p; + dev->p = NULL; /* * Some platform devices are driven without driver attached * and managed resources may have been acquired. Make sure @@ -3828,8 +3829,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) parent_error: put_device(parent); name_error: - kfree(dev->p); - dev->p = NULL; goto done; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_add); -- 2.55.0