Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] ACPI: bus: Rework acquiring the primary physical for a given ACPI one

Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:46:43 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.acpi.devel
Organization Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 01:28:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is somewhat late, but since there will be follow-up changes tree-wide,
> it would be good to get it into the mainline sooner than later.
> 
> It is based on the observation that the majority of
> acpi_get_first_physical_node() callers want to hold a reference on the returned
> device and the function is potentially racy because it doesn't get such a
> reference itself.  There were also some comments from Sashiko pointing
> out to this as a "preexisting issue".
> 
> The first patch adds a acpi_get_first_physical_node() replacement called
> acpi_bus_get_primary_device() and returning a reference-counted device (the
> former is retained for the time being, but made use the same code as the
> latter).
> 
> The next two patches change the core ACPI code to use the new function
> instead of the old one.
> 
> Later on, patches will be sent to switch all of the callers of
> acpi_get_first_physical_node() over to using acpi_bus_get_primary_device()
> and finally to drop the former.

I have one comment in patch 1 (see separate reply) but overall LGTM and I like
the end result.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko