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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] kobject: Add kobject initialized predicate
Date: Thu,  2 May 2019 12:31:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502023142.20139-5-tobin@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190502023142.20139-1-tobin@kernel.org>

A call to kobject_init() is required to be paired with a call to
kobject_put() in order to correctly free up the kobject.  During cleanup
functions it would be useful to know if a kobject was initialized in
order to correctly pair the call to kobject_put().  For example this is
necessary if we attempt to initialize multiple objects on a list and one
fails - in order to correctly do cleanup we need to know which objects
have been initialized.

Add a predicate kobject_is_initialized() to the kobject API.  This
function maintains the kobject layer of abstraction; simply returns
kobj->state_initialized.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/kobject.h |  2 ++
 lib/kobject.c           | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index 1ab0d624fb36..65a317b65d9c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj,
 			 struct kobj_type *ktype, struct kobject *parent,
 			 const char *fmt, ...);
 
+extern bool kobject_is_initialized(struct kobject *kobj);
+
 extern void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj);
 
 extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_create(void);
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 0181f102cd1c..ecddf417f452 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -366,6 +366,18 @@ void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_init);
 
+/**
+ * kobject_is_initialized() - Kobject initialized predicate.
+ * @kobj: The kobject to query
+ *
+ * Return: True if @kobj has been initialized.
+ */
+bool kobject_is_initialized(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	return kobj->state_initialized;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_is_initialized);
+
 static __printf(3, 0) int kobject_add_varg(struct kobject *kobj,
 					   struct kobject *parent,
 					   const char *fmt, va_list vargs)
-- 
2.21.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02  2:31 [RFC PATCH 0/5] kobject: Add and use init predicate Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  2:31 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] livepatch: Fix kobject memleak Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  7:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02  8:46   ` Petr Mladek
2019-05-02  2:31 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] kobject: Remove docstring reference to kset Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  7:20   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02  2:31 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  7:20   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02  7:38   ` Johan Hovold
2019-05-02  8:25     ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  8:39       ` Johan Hovold
2019-05-03  1:40         ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-03  1:46           ` Randy Dunlap
2019-05-03 12:23             ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-05-03  7:56           ` Johan Hovold
2019-05-03  8:05             ` Petr Mladek
2019-05-06 23:00             ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-07  9:38               ` Johan Hovold
2019-05-02  2:31 ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2019-05-02  2:31 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] livepatch: Do not manually track kobject initialization Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  7:12   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02  7:30     ` Petr Mladek
2019-05-02  7:42       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02  8:31       ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-02  8:51         ` Petr Mladek
2019-05-02 11:42 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] kobject: Add and use init predicate Miroslav Benes

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