kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()
authorHeikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:46:46 +0000 (19:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:14:37 +0000 (14:14 +0200)
commit079ad2fb4bf9eba8a0aaab014b49705cd7f07c66
tree0ff76c10601ebfc13f2444f0d81b2caf93927702
parente5711945c6415ab847b39ef89003ef68f9435bc6
kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()

If kobject_del() is invoked by kobject_cleanup() to delete the
target kobject, it may cause its parent kobject to be freed
before invoking the target kobject's ->release() method, which
effectively means freeing the parent before dealing with the
child entirely.

That is confusing at best and it may also lead to functional
issues if the callers of kobject_cleanup() are not careful enough
about the order in which these calls are made, so avoid the
problem by making kobject_cleanup() drop the last reference to
the target kobject's parent at the end, after invoking the target
kobject's ->release() method.

[ rjw: Rewrite the subject and changelog, make kobject_cleanup()
  drop the parent reference only when __kobject_del() 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>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1908555.IiAGLGrh1Z@kreacher
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/kobject.c