Re: [PATCH V2] cpufreq: Always remove sysfs cpuX/cpufreq link on ->remove_dev()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Nov 23 2015 - 17:17:52 EST


On Saturday, November 21, 2015 06:42:09 AM Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 09:06 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Subsys interface's ->remove_dev() is called when the cpufreq driver
> > is
> > unregistering or the CPU is getting physically removed. We keep
> > removing
> > the cpuX/cpufreq link for all CPUs except the last one, which is a
> > mistake as all CPUs contain a link now.
> >
> > Because of this, one CPU from each policy will still contain a link
> > (to
> > an already removed policyX directory), after the cpufreq driver is
> > unregistered.
> >
> > Fix that by removing the link first and then only see if the policy
> > is
> > required to be freed. That will make sure that no links are left out.
> >
> > Fixes: 96bdda61f58b ("cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX
> > directories")
> > Reported-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Tested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Applied, thanks!

Rafael

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