[PATCH 20/34] iio: inkern: only relase the device node when done with it

[Nuno Sá]

On Fri, 2022-06-10 at 16:56 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:48 AM Nuno Sá <nuno.sa at analog.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 'of_node_put()' can potentially release the memory pointed to by
> > 'iiospec.np' which would leave us with an invalid pointer (and we
> > would
> > still pass it in 'of_xlate()'). As such, we can only release the
> > node
> > after we are done with it.
> 
> The question you should answer in the commit message is the
> following:
> "Can an OF node, attached to a struct device, be gone before the
> device itself?" If it so, then patch is good, otherwise there is no
> point in this patch in the first place.
> 

Yeah, I might be wrong but from a quick look... yes, I think the node
can be gone before the device. Take a look on the spi or i2c of_notify
handling and you can see that the nodes are get/put on the add/remove
notifcation. Meaning that the node lifespan is not really attached to
the device lifespan. If it was, I would expect to see of_node_put() on
the device release() function...

Again, I might be wrong and I admit I was not sure about including this
patch because it's a very unlikely scenario even though I think, in
theory, a possible one.

- Nuno Sá