driver core: Reject pointless SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links
authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:05:49 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:45:54 +0000 (17:45 +0200)
commitf729a592adb6760013c3e48622a5bf256b992452
treeec028f371a25d826588a359405f68957e510db19
parent410d591a19543f1347bc2b4b4ec3399cb548ba47
driver core: Reject pointless SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links

SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links intentionally allow cycles because cyclic
sync_state() dependencies are valid and necessary.

However a SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link where the consumer and the supplier
are the same device is pointless because the device link would be deleted
as soon as the device probes (because it's also the consumer) and won't
affect when the sync_state() callback is called. It's a waste of CPU cycles
and memory to create this device link. So reject any attempts to create
such a device link.

Fixes: 05ef983e0d65 ("driver core: Add device link support for SYNC_STATE_ONLY flag")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210929190549.860541-1-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/core.c