Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.11 merge window.

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 83198cb37d8d..ea53b30cf483 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Novell Inc.
  *
- * Please see the file Documentation/kobject.txt for critical information
+ * Please see the file Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst for critical information
  * about using the kobject interface.
  */
 
@@ -599,35 +599,50 @@ 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;
 
-	if (!kobj)
-		return;
-
 	sd = kobj->sd;
 	ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
 
 	if (ktype)
 		sysfs_remove_groups(kobj, ktype->default_groups);
 
+	/* send "remove" if the caller did not do it but sent "add" */
+	if (kobj->state_add_uevent_sent && !kobj->state_remove_uevent_sent) {
+		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): auto cleanup 'remove' event\n",
+			 kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
+		kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
+	}
+
 	sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
 	sysfs_put(sd);
 
 	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;
+
+	if (!kobj)
+		return;
+
+	parent = kobj->parent;
+	__kobject_del(kobj);
+	kobject_put(parent);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_del);
 
 /**
@@ -663,6 +678,7 @@ 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;
 
@@ -670,21 +686,17 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *kobj)
 		 kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__, kobj->parent);
 
 	if (t && !t->release)
-		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/kobject.txt.\n",
-			 kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
-
-	/* send "remove" if the caller did not do it but sent "add" */
-	if (kobj->state_add_uevent_sent && !kobj->state_remove_uevent_sent) {
-		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): auto cleanup 'remove' event\n",
+		pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst.\n",
 			 kobject_name(kobj), kobj);
-		kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
-	}
 
 	/* remove from sysfs if the caller did not do it */
 	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 +710,8 @@ 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