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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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+====================================================
+Testing suspend and resume support in device drivers
+====================================================
+
+ (C) 2007 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, GPL
+
+1. Preparing the test system
+============================
+
+Unfortunately, to effectively test the support for the system-wide suspend and
+resume transitions in a driver, it is necessary to suspend and resume a fully
+functional system with this driver loaded. Moreover, that should be done
+several times, preferably several times in a row, and separately for hibernation
+(aka suspend to disk or STD) and suspend to RAM (STR), because each of these
+cases involves slightly different operations and different interactions with
+the machine's BIOS.
+
+Of course, for this purpose the test system has to be known to suspend and
+resume without the driver being tested. Thus, if possible, you should first
+resolve all suspend/resume-related problems in the test system before you start
+testing the new driver. Please see Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.rst
+for more information about the debugging of suspend/resume functionality.
+
+2. Testing the driver
+=====================
+
+Once you have resolved the suspend/resume-related problems with your test system
+without the new driver, you are ready to test it:
+
+a) Build the driver as a module, load it and try the test modes of hibernation
+ (see: Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.rst, 1).
+
+b) Load the driver and attempt to hibernate in the "reboot", "shutdown" and
+ "platform" modes (see: Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.rst, 1).
+
+c) Compile the driver directly into the kernel and try the test modes of
+ hibernation.
+
+d) Attempt to hibernate with the driver compiled directly into the kernel
+ in the "reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes.
+
+e) Try the test modes of suspend (see:
+ Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.rst, 2). [As far as the STR tests are
+ concerned, it should not matter whether or not the driver is built as a
+ module.]
+
+f) Attempt to suspend to RAM using the s2ram tool with the driver loaded
+ (see: Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.rst, 2).
+
+Each of the above tests should be repeated several times and the STD tests
+should be mixed with the STR tests. If any of them fails, the driver cannot be
+regarded as suspend/resume-safe.