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    opp: Don't drop extra references to OPPs accidentally · 606a5d42
    Beata Michalska authored
    We are required to call dev_pm_opp_put() from outside of the
    opp_table->lock as debugfs removal needs to happen lock-less to avoid
    circular dependency issues.
    
    commit cf1fac94 ("opp: Reduce the size of critical section in
    _opp_kref_release()") tried to fix that introducing a new routine
    _opp_get_next() which keeps returning OPPs that can be freed by the
    callers and this routine shall be called without holding the
    opp_table->lock.
    
    Though the commit overlooked the fact that the OPPs can be referenced by
    other users as well and this routine will end up dropping references
    which were taken by other users and hence freeing the OPPs prematurely.
    
    In effect, other users of the OPPs will end up having invalid pointers
    at hand. We didn't see any crash reports earlier as the exact situation
    never happened, though it is certainly possible.
    
    We need a way to mark which OPPs are no longer referenced by the OPP
    core, so we don't drop extra references to them accidentally.
    
    This commit adds another OPP flag, "removed", which is used to track
    this. And now we should never end up dropping extra references to the
    OPPs.
    
    Cc: v5.11+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.11+
    Fixes: cf1fac94 ("opp: Reduce the size of critical section in _opp_kref_release()")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBeata Michalska <beata.michalska@arm.com>
    [ Viresh: Almost rewrote entire patch, added new "removed" field,
    	  rewrote commit log and added the correct Fixes tag. ]
    Co-developed-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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