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    driver core: Introduce device links reference counting · ead18c23
    Lukas Wunner authored
    
    
    If device_link_add() is invoked multiple times with the same supplier
    and consumer combo, it will create the link on first addition and
    return a pointer to the already existing link on all subsequent
    additions.
    
    The semantics for device_link_del() are quite different, it deletes
    the link unconditionally, so multiple invocations are not allowed.
    
    In other words, this snippet ...
    
        struct device *dev1, *dev2;
        struct device_link *link1, *link2;
    
        link1 = device_link_add(dev1, dev2, 0);
        link2 = device_link_add(dev1, dev2, 0);
    
        device_link_del(link1);
        device_link_del(link2);
    
    ... causes the following crash:
    
        WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2686 at drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1611 pm_runtime_drop_link+0x40/0x50
        [...]
        list_del corruption, 0000000039b800a4->prev is LIST_POISON2 (00000000ecf79852)
        kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:50!
    
    The issue isn't as arbitrary as it may seem:  Imagine a device link
    which is added in both the supplier's and the consumer's ->probe hook.
    The two drivers can't just call device_link_del() in their ->remove hook
    without coordination.
    
    Fix by counting multiple additions and dropping the device link only
    when the last addition is unwound.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
    [ rjw: Subject ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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