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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: Fix rpmsg_remove() release
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To:     Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@st.com>, <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
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From:   Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:32:06 -0500
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Hi Loic,

On 07/25/2018 04:07 PM, Loic Pallardy wrote:
> In rpmsg_remove() procedure, children are removed then Name
> Service announcement endpoint is destroyed and device released.
> 
> Issue with current implementation is if a NS announcement
> creation request is ongoing (received before virtio reset),
> child device could be created after children removing.
> In that case rpmsg_remove() is freeing rpmsg_virtio_bus,
> leading to an inconsistent state.
> 
> This patch is destroying NS announcement service endpoint before
> removing children to guarantee that list of child devices is
> fixed and all of them will be correctly removed before cleaning
> resources.

I do not think this is the right fix for the problem you explained.
The removal of rpmsg devices can actually invoke the announce_destroy
in the rpmsg_dev_remove().

regards
Suman

> 
> fixes: bcabbccabffe ("rpmsg: Split off generic tail of create_channel()")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@st.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> index 664f957..f5d481f 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> @@ -1004,13 +1004,13 @@ static void rpmsg_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  
>  	vdev->config->reset(vdev);
>  
> +	if (vrp->ns_ept)
> +		__rpmsg_destroy_ept(vrp, vrp->ns_ept);
> +
>  	ret = device_for_each_child(&vdev->dev, NULL, rpmsg_remove_device);
>  	if (ret)
>  		dev_warn(&vdev->dev, "can't remove rpmsg device: %d\n", ret);
>  
> -	if (vrp->ns_ept)
> -		__rpmsg_destroy_ept(vrp, vrp->ns_ept);
> -
>  	idr_destroy(&vrp->endpoints);
>  
>  	vdev->config->del_vqs(vrp->vdev);
>