[PATCH v2] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Tue Mar 17 09:22:50 PDT 2026


On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/17/2026 5:11 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> In various places in the kernel, we modify the fwnode "flags" member
> >> by doing either:
> >>   fwnode->flags |= SOME_FLAG;
> >>   fwnode->flags &= ~SOME_FLAG;
> >>
> >> This type of modification is not thread-safe. If two threads are both
> >> mucking with the flags at the same time then one can clobber the
> >> other.
> >>
> >> While flags are often modified while under the "fwnode_link_lock",
> >> this is not universally true.
> >>
> >> Create some accessor functions for setting, clearing, and testing the
> >> FWNODE flags and move all users to these accessor functions. New
> >> accessor functions use set_bit() and clear_bit(), which are
> >> thread-safe.
> >>
> >> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> >> Fixes: c2c724c868c4 ("driver core: Add fw_devlink_parse_fwtree()")
> >> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> >> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> >> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> >
> > Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael at kernel.org>
>
> ACK or RB?

RB, sorry.



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