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    Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function" · 7589238a
    Brendan Higgins authored
    This reverts commit 3df85a1a.
    
    The reverted commit says "It's possible to release the node ID
    immediately when fwnode_remove_software_node() is called, no need to
    wait for software_node_release() with that." However, releasing the node
    ID before waiting for software_node_release() to be called causes the
    node ID to be released before the kobject and the underlying sysfs
    entry; this means there is a period of time where a sysfs entry exists
    that is associated with an unallocated node ID.
    
    Once consequence of this is that there is a race condition where it is
    possible to call fwnode_create_software_node() with no parent node
    specified (NULL) and have it fail with -EEXIST because the node ID that
    was assigned is still associated with a stale sysfs entry that hasn't
    been cleaned up yet.
    
    Although it is difficult to reproduce this race condition under normal
    conditions, it can be deterministically reproduced with the following
    minconfig on UML:
    
    CONFIG_KUNIT_DRIVER_PE_TEST=y
    CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
    CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y
    CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS=y
    CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y
    CONFIG_KUNIT=y
    
    Running the tests with this configuration causes the following failure:
    
    <snip>
    kobject: 'node0' ((____ptrval____)): kobject_release, parent (____ptrval____) (delayed 400)
    	ok 1 - pe_test_uints
    sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/software_nodes/node0'
    CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: kunit_try_catch Not tainted 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200227 #14
    <snip>
    kobject_add_internal failed for node0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
    kobject: 'node0' ((____ptrval____)): kobject_release, parent (____ptrval____) (delayed 100)
    	# pe_test_uint_arrays: ASSERTION FAILED at drivers/base/test/property-entry-test.c:123
    	Expected node is not error, but is: -17
    	not ok 2 - pe_test_uint_arrays
    <snip>
    Reported-by: default avatarHeidi Fahim <heidifahim@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHeikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: 5.3+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.3+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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