Re: [PATCH] CXL: Fix device_node reference counting
From: Ian Munsie <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-28 05:54:45
Excerpts from Michael Ellerman's message of 2015-01-28 16:04:40 +1100:
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I just wanted to check the status of this one? I can't see it in your tree and wanted to make sure you didn't simply miss it.It looked fishy, but I never got around to replying. The second sentence in the explanation should never be true:
Right, that was the point of the fix ;)
You shouldn't have np unless you did an of_node_get() to get it, otherwise it's pointing at something you don't have a reference for and it might go away at any time. So the patch may fix the bug but I don't think it's correct. I think pnv_pci_to_phb_node() should be doing a get for you, before returning the pointer.
Agreed - we should probably also rename it to have 'get' in the name, like pnv_pci_get_phb_node().
See as a comparison pcibios_get_phb_of_node().
We could almost use that instead, except it's not exported for modules and I'm not sure if that even works with __weak functions? Ryan - do you want to respin this, or would you rather I take it? Cheers, -Ian