Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: irqchip: prevent driver unloading if gpio is used as irq only

[Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Now nothing prevents GPIO driver from being unloaded if its gpios
> were requested as GPIO IRQs only (without calling gpio_request()).
>
> Hence, add calls of try_module_get()/module_put() into
> gpiochip_irq_reqres/relres() to track such scenario properly.

Bad things could happen indeed.

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index be42ab3..9b1d247 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -522,10 +522,14 @@ static int gpiochip_irq_reqres(struct irq_data *d)
>  {
>         struct gpio_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
>
> +       if (!try_module_get(chip->owner))
> +               return -ENODEV;
> +
>         if (gpiochip_lock_as_irq(chip, d->hwirq)) {
>                 chip_err(chip,
>                         "unable to lock HW IRQ %lu for IRQ\n",
>                         d->hwirq);
> +               module_put(chip->owner);
>                 return -EINVAL;
>         }
>         return 0;
> @@ -536,6 +540,7 @@ static void gpiochip_irq_relres(struct irq_data *d)
>         struct gpio_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
>
>         gpiochip_unlock_as_irq(chip, d->hwirq);
> +       module_put(chip->owner);
>  }
>
>  static int gpiochip_to_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset)
> --
> 2.4.4
>
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