Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] driver core: Fix handling of runtime PM flags in device_link_add()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Feb 07 2019 - 14:21:04 EST


On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:15 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 01:49:14AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > After commit ead18c23c263 ("driver core: Introduce device links
> > reference counting"), if there is a link between the given supplier
> > and the given consumer already, device_link_add() will refcount it
> > and return it unconditionally without updating its flags. It is
> > possible, however, that the second (or any subsequent) caller of
> > device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair will pass
> > DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME, possibly along with DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE, in flags
> > to it and the existing link may not behave as expected then.
> [...]
> > Fixes: ead18c23c263 ("driver core: Introduce device links reference counting")
>
> I think this should be:
>
> Fixes: 21d5c57b3726 ("PM / runtime: Use device links")

Again, sorry for failing to look deeper into the past.

Yes, there should be

Fixes: 21d5c57b3726 ("PM / runtime: Use device links")

in the changelog of this patch, but again, I still would add the other
Fixes: tag too as the issue is still present after ead18c23c263 and
that commit is needed for the patch to apply.