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    driver core: Avoid careless re-use of existing device links · f265df55
    Rafael J. Wysocki authored
    After commit ead18c23 ("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.  However, if the flags passed to
    it on the second (or any subsequent) attempt to create a device
    link between the same consumer-supplier pair are not compatible with
    the existing link's flags, that is incorrect.
    
    First off, if the existing link is stateless and the next caller of
    device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair wants a
    stateful one, or the other way around, the existing link cannot be
    returned, because it will not match the expected behavior, so make
    device_link_add() dump the stack and return NULL in that case.
    
    Moreover, if the DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER flag is passed to
    device_link_add(), its caller will expect its reference to the link
    to be dropped automatically on consumer driver removal, which will
    not happen if that flag is not set in the link's flags (and
    analogously for DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER).  For this reason, make
    device_link_add() update the existing link's flags accordingly
    before returning it to the caller.
    
    Fixes: ead18c23 ("driver core: Introduce device links reference counting")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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