summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorYazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>2026-09-03 10:43:25 -0500
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2026-09-10 18:05:43 -0700
commit27600805e62f800bacf990354632eae4e487d34c (patch)
treee8aec0ddfaa0bc264d79af632e3de3f1b75ae4c8 /Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst
downloadlinux-stable-27600805e62f800bacf990354632eae4e487d34c.tar.gz
linux-stable-27600805e62f800bacf990354632eae4e487d34c.zip
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
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst50
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28a32410f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firewire.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+===========================================
+Firewire (IEEE 1394) driver Interface Guide
+===========================================
+
+Introduction and Overview
+=========================
+
+The Linux FireWire subsystem adds some interfaces into the Linux system to
+ use/maintain+any resource on IEEE 1394 bus.
+
+The main purpose of these interfaces is to access address space on each node
+on IEEE 1394 bus by ISO/IEC 13213 (IEEE 1212) procedure, and to control
+isochronous resources on the bus by IEEE 1394 procedure.
+
+Two types of interfaces are added, according to consumers of the interface. A
+set of userspace interfaces is available via `firewire character devices`. A set
+of kernel interfaces is available via exported symbols in `firewire-core` module.
+
+Firewire char device data structures
+====================================
+
+.. include:: ../ABI/stable/firewire-cdev
+ :literal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/firewire-cdev.h
+ :internal:
+
+Firewire device probing and sysfs interfaces
+============================================
+
+.. include:: ../ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-firewire
+ :literal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/firewire/core-device.c
+ :export:
+
+Firewire core transaction interfaces
+====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/firewire/core-transaction.c
+ :export:
+
+Firewire Isochronous I/O interfaces
+===================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/firewire.h
+ :functions: fw_iso_context_schedule_flush_completions
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/firewire/core-iso.c
+ :export:
+