Re: [PATCH 02/10] iio: adc: mcp3911: use resource-managed version of iio_device_register

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 1:15 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:29:20 +0200
> Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for your comments (all of them) Andy!
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 09:01:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 7:40 PM Marcus Folkesson
> > > <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Keep using managed resources as much as possible.
> > >
> > > You may not mix devm_ and non-devm_ API calls like this.
> > > So, you rule of thumb that goto is most of the time wrong after devm_ call.
> >
> > Can you please confirm that clocks and regulators are disabled when the
> > resources are handed back?
> > I cannot see where when I'm trying to follow the code.
> Andy isn't arguing that the goto is wrong but rather that you cannot
> in general safely use devm_* calls if their failure leads to having to
> do any cleanup.  The reason is the ordering is hard to reason about. Sometimes
> it's safe, but often enough causes problems that we basically refuse to think
> hard enough to figure out if it is.  Hence basic rule is don't do it.
>
> The issue is this.
> probe() {
>
>         non_devm_call_1();
>         ret = devm_call_2()
>         if (ret)
>                 goto err;
>
>         return 0;
> err:
>         unwind_non_devm_call_1()
> }
>
> remove() {
>         unwind_non_devm_call_1()
> }
>
> remove or error path should unwind in opposite order of what happens in probe.
> On the rare occasion where that isn't the right choice, there should be very
> clear comments to say why.
>
> Order is
>
> remove() -> unwind_non_devm_call_1()
> devm_managed_cleanup() -> unwind_devm_call_2()
>
> Whereas should be
>
> remove()-> unwind_call_2() then unwind_call_1()
>
>
> There are two ways to solve this.  Either only use devm for those
> elements in probe() that happen before the first thing you need to
> unwind manually or make everything devm managed (it unwinds in reverse
> order of setup) devm_add_action_or_reset() allows you to use your
> own devm_ managed callbacks if there isn't a standard one available.

Thanks, Jonathan, that's exactly what I meant!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko