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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 1e4b7382a88e..3afb939f2a1c 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -599,14 +599,7 @@ out: } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_move); -/** - * kobject_del() - Unlink kobject from hierarchy. - * @kobj: object. - * - * This is the function that should be called to delete an object - * successfully added via kobject_add(). - */ -void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) +static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) { struct kernfs_node *sd; const struct kobj_type *ktype; @@ -632,9 +625,23 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) kobj->state_in_sysfs = 0; kobj_kset_leave(kobj); - kobject_put(kobj->parent); kobj->parent = NULL; } + +/** + * kobject_del() - Unlink kobject from hierarchy. + * @kobj: object. + * + * This is the function that should be called to delete an object + * successfully added via kobject_add(). + */ +void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) +{ + struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; + + __kobject_del(kobj); + kobject_put(parent); +} EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_del); /** @@ -670,6 +677,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero); */ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) { + struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; struct kobj_type *t = get_ktype(kobj); const char *name = kobj->name; @@ -684,7 +692,10 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) if (kobj->state_in_sysfs) { pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): auto cleanup kobject_del\n", kobject_name(kobj), kobj); - kobject_del(kobj); + __kobject_del(kobj); + } else { + /* avoid dropping the parent reference unnecessarily */ + parent = NULL; } if (t && t->release) { @@ -698,6 +709,8 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj) pr_debug("kobject: '%s': free name\n", name); kfree_const(name); } + + kobject_put(parent); } #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE |