[PATCH v1 1/3] thermal: core: Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() return after freeing the zone

Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-12-08T19:20:45Z

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() wait until all of the references
to the given thermal zone object have been dropped and free it before
returning.

This guarantees that when thermal_zone_device_unregister() returns,
there is no leftover activity regarding the thermal zone in question
which is required by some of its callers (for instance, modular driver
code that wants to know when it is safe to let the module go away).

Subsequently, this will allow some confusing device_is_registered()
checks to be dropped from the thermal sysfs and core code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 6 +++++-
include/linux/thermal.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ static void thermal_release(struct devic
tz = to_thermal_zone(dev);
thermal_zone_destroy_device_groups(tz);
mutex_destroy(&tz->lock);
- kfree(tz);
+ complete(&tz->removal);
} else if (!strncmp(dev_name(dev), "cooling_device",
sizeof("cooling_device") - 1)) {
cdev = to_cooling_device(dev);
@@ -1315,6 +1315,7 @@ thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tz->thermal_instances);
ida_init(&tz->ida);
mutex_init(&tz->lock);
+ init_completion(&tz->removal);
id = ida_alloc(&thermal_tz_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
if (id < 0) {
result = id;
@@ -1494,6 +1495,9 @@ void thermal_zone_device_unregister(stru
put_device(&tz->device);

thermal_notify_tz_delete(tz_id);
+
+ wait_for_completion(&tz->removal);
+ kfree(tz);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_zone_device_unregister);

Index: linux-pm/include/linux/thermal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/thermal.h
+++ linux-pm/include/linux/thermal.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct thermal_cooling_device {
* @id: unique id number for each thermal zone
* @type: the thermal zone device type
* @device: &struct device for this thermal zone
+ * @removal: removal completion
* @trip_temp_attrs: attributes for trip points for sysfs: trip temperature
* @trip_type_attrs: attributes for trip points for sysfs: trip type
* @trip_hyst_attrs: attributes for trip points for sysfs: trip hysteresis
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device {
int id;
char type[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
struct device device;
+ struct completion removal;
struct attribute_group trips_attribute_group;
struct thermal_attr *trip_temp_attrs;
struct thermal_attr *trip_type_attrs;