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authorYazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>2026-09-03 10:43:25 -0500
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x86/amd_node: Fix PCI device reference counting in amd_smn_init()grafted
The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned up after the search is complete. Use the __free() cleanup macro to ensure the refcount is decremented when the temporary pointer goes out of scope. Additionally, increment the refcount when caching a root pointer. This ensures the in-use refcount is separate from the temporary search refcounting. Finally, drop the redundant "root = NULL" before the second search loop. The pci_get_class() iterator always decrements the refcount of its "from" argument, so the first loop can only fall through with "root" already NULL. Fixes: 0a4b61d9c2e4 ("x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806160159.230453-1-jason.andryuk%40amd.com Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903154325.74343-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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+======
+kcopyd
+======
+
+Kcopyd provides the ability to copy a range of sectors from one block-device
+to one or more other block-devices, with an asynchronous completion
+notification. It is used by dm-snapshot and dm-mirror.
+
+Users of kcopyd must first create a client and indicate how many memory pages
+to set aside for their copy jobs. This is done with a call to
+kcopyd_client_create()::
+
+ int kcopyd_client_create(unsigned int num_pages,
+ struct kcopyd_client **result);
+
+To start a copy job, the user must set up io_region structures to describe
+the source and destinations of the copy. Each io_region indicates a
+block-device along with the starting sector and size of the region. The source
+of the copy is given as one io_region structure, and the destinations of the
+copy are given as an array of io_region structures::
+
+ struct io_region {
+ struct block_device *bdev;
+ sector_t sector;
+ sector_t count;
+ };
+
+To start the copy, the user calls kcopyd_copy(), passing in the client
+pointer, pointers to the source and destination io_regions, the name of a
+completion callback routine, and a pointer to some context data for the copy::
+
+ int kcopyd_copy(struct kcopyd_client *kc, struct io_region *from,
+ unsigned int num_dests, struct io_region *dests,
+ unsigned int flags, kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context);
+
+ typedef void (*kcopyd_notify_fn)(int read_err, unsigned int write_err,
+ void *context);
+
+When the copy completes, kcopyd will call the user's completion routine,
+passing back the user's context pointer. It will also indicate if a read or
+write error occurred during the copy.
+
+When a user is done with all their copy jobs, they should call
+kcopyd_client_destroy() to delete the kcopyd client, which will release the
+associated memory pages::
+
+ void kcopyd_client_destroy(struct kcopyd_client *kc);