Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: free irqs that are still requested when the chip is being removed

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Hi Bartosz,

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:51:04 +0200
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If we remove a GPIO chip that is also an interrupt controller with users
> not having freed some interrupts, we'll end up leaking resources as
> indicated by the following warning:
> 
>   remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/30', leaking at least 'gpio'
> 
> As there's no way of notifying interrupt users about the irqchip going
> away and the interrupt subsystem is not plugged into the driver model and
> so not all cases can be handled by devlinks, we need to make sure to free
> all interrupts before the complete the removal of the provider.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - we should actually take the request_mutex to protect the irqaction from being
>   freed while we dereference it and keep the actual dereferencing under the lock
> - add some comments to explain what we're doing
> 
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)

Thanks for the patch.
Tested on my system and it fixes the issue.

Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx>

My old series [1] related to the topic is no more needed and can be thrown
away.

Best regards,
Hervé

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240227113426.253232-1-herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx/




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