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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h4
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug19
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c22
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index 939b11268c86..de6dcbcc6ef7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#define UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN 256
#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ struct kobject {
struct kobj_type *ktype;
struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
struct kref kref;
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
+ struct delayed_work release;
+#endif
unsigned int state_initialized:1;
unsigned int state_in_sysfs:1;
unsigned int state_add_uevent_sent:1;
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 1501aa553221..444e1c12fea9 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -981,6 +981,25 @@ config DEBUG_KOBJECT
If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent
to the syslog.
+config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
+ bool "kobject release debugging"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their
+ last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can
+ live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's
+ initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An
+ example of this would be a struct device which has just been
+ unregistered.
+
+ However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation,
+ the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This
+ goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object.
+
+ If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects
+ on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this
+ kind of kobject release bug.
+
config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 4a1f33d43548..1d46c151a4ae 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
struct kobj_type *t = get_ktype(kobj);
const char *name = kobj->name;
- pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s\n",
- kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__);
+ pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s, parent %p\n",
+ kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__, kobj->parent);
if (t && !t->release)
pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() "
@@ -580,9 +580,25 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
}
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
+static void kobject_delayed_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ kobject_cleanup(container_of(to_delayed_work(work),
+ struct kobject, release));
+}
+#endif
+
static void kobject_release(struct kref *kref)
{
- kobject_cleanup(container_of(kref, struct kobject, kref));
+ struct kobject *kobj = container_of(kref, struct kobject, kref);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
+ pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s, parent %p (delayed)\n",
+ kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__, kobj->parent);
+ INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&kobj->release, kobject_delayed_cleanup);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&kobj->release, HZ);
+#else
+ kobject_cleanup(kobj);
+#endif
}
/**