[PATCH 0/2] Remove ksets from sysfs eagerly

[Bjorn Helgaas]

With CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y, kobject release is delayed even after
the last reference to the object is dropped.

With this turned on, Veaceslav and Zdenek noticed that when we enable,
disable, and re-enable MSIs, we often see errors like "sysfs: cannot create
duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/.../msi_irqs'".  This happens
when we unload and reload drivers that use MSI.

The reason is that the MSI disable path uses kset_unregister(dev->msi_kset),
which doesn't remove the kset from sysfs until the the kobject release
function is called.  With CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE, the release is
obviously delayed, but even without it, the release will be delayed if
somebody has the kset sysfs file open when kset_unregister() is called.

We could work around this by explicitly calling
"kobject_del(&dev->msi_kset->kobj)", but that seems clunky and other
kset_unregister() users are likely to have similar problems.

The idea of this patch is to make kset_unregister() unlink the kset from
sysfs immediately, before dropping the kset reference.

---

Bjorn Helgaas (2):
      kobject: remove kset from sysfs immediately in kset_unregister()
      kobject: fix kset sample error path


 Documentation/kobject.txt      |    3 ++-
 lib/kobject.c                  |    1 +
 samples/kobject/kset-example.c |    1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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