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    PCI: hotplug: Demidlayer registration with the core · 51bbf9be
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    When a hotplug driver calls pci_hp_register(), all steps necessary for
    registration are carried out in one go, including creation of a kobject
    and addition to sysfs.  That's a problem for pciehp once it's converted
    to enable/disable the slot exclusively from the IRQ thread:  The thread
    needs to be spawned after creation of the kobject (because it uses the
    kobject's name), but before addition to sysfs (because it will handle
    enable/disable requests submitted via sysfs).
    
    pci_hp_deregister() does offer a ->release callback that's invoked
    after deletion from sysfs and before destruction of the kobject.  But
    because pci_hp_register() doesn't offer a counterpart, hotplug drivers'
    ->probe and ->remove code becomes asymmetric, which is error prone
    as recently discovered use-after-free bugs in pciehp's ->remove hook
    have shown.
    
    In a sense, this appears to be a case of the midlayer antipattern:
    
       "The core thesis of the "midlayer mistake" is that midlayers are
        bad and should not exist.  That common functionality which it is
        so tempting to put in a midlayer should instead be provided as
        library routines which can [be] used, augmented, or ignored by
        each bottom level driver independently.  Thus every subsystem
        that supports multiple implementations (or drivers) should
        provide a very thin top layer which calls directly into the
        bottom layer drivers, and a rich library of support code that
        eases the implementation of those drivers.  This library is
        available to, but not forced upon, those drivers."
            --  Neil Brown (2009), https://lwn.net/Articles/336262/
    
    The presence of midlayer traits in the PCI hotplug core might be ascribed
    to its age:  When it was introduced in February 2002, the blessings of a
    library approach might not have been well known:
    https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/a8a2069f432c
    
    For comparison, the driver core does offer split functions for creating
    a kobject (device_initialize()) and addition to sysfs (device_add()) as
    an alternative to carrying out everything at once (device_register()).
    This was introduced in October 2002:
    https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/8b290eb19962
    
    The odd ->release callback in the PCI hotplug core was added in 2003:
    https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/69f8d663b595
    
    Clearly, a library approach would not force every hotplug driver to
    implement a ->release callback, but rather allow the driver to remove
    the sysfs files, release its data structures and finally destroy the
    kobject.  Alternatively, a driver may choose to remove everything with
    pci_hp_deregister(), then release its data structures.
    
    To this end, offer drivers pci_hp_initialize() and pci_hp_add() as a
    split-up version of pci_hp_register().  Likewise, offer pci_hp_del()
    and pci_hp_destroy() as a split-up version of pci_hp_deregister().
    
    Eliminate the ->release callback and move its code into each driver's
    teardown routine.
    
    Declare pci_hp_deregister() void, in keeping with the usual kernel
    pattern that enablement can fail, but disablement cannot.  It only
    returned an error if the caller passed in a NULL pointer or a slot which
    has never or is no longer registered or is sharing its name with another
    slot.  Those would be bugs, so WARN about them.  Few hotplug drivers
    actually checked the return value and those that did only printed a
    useless error message to dmesg.  Remove that.
    
    For most drivers the conversion was straightforward since it doesn't
    matter whether the code in the ->release callback is executed before or
    after destruction of the kobject.  But in the case of ibmphp, it was
    unclear to me whether setting slot_cur->ctrl and slot_cur->bus_on to
    NULL needs to happen before the kobject is destroyed, so I erred on
    the side of caution and ensured that the order stays the same.  Another
    nontrivial case is pnv_php, I've found the list and kref logic difficult
    to understand, however my impression was that it is safe to delete the
    list element and drop the references until after the kobject is
    destroyed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>  # drivers/platform/x86
    Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
    Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Scott Murray <scott@spiteful.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
    Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
    Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
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