Merging upstream version 6.8.9.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/of/dynamic.c b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
index 3bf2705283..4d57a4e341 100644
--- a/drivers/of/dynamic.c
+++ b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt)	"OF: " fmt
 
+#include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -667,6 +668,17 @@ void of_changeset_destroy(struct of_changeset *ocs)
 {
 	struct of_changeset_entry *ce, *cen;
 
+	/*
+	 * When a device is deleted, the device links to/from it are also queued
+	 * for deletion. Until these device links are freed, the devices
+	 * themselves aren't freed. If the device being deleted is due to an
+	 * overlay change, this device might be holding a reference to a device
+	 * node that will be freed. So, wait until all already pending device
+	 * links are deleted before freeing a device node. This ensures we don't
+	 * free any device node that has a non-zero reference count.
+	 */
+	device_link_wait_removal();
+
 	list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(ce, cen, &ocs->entries, node)
 		__of_changeset_entry_destroy(ce);
 }