Hi Linus, Tony, If claiming hogs failed, pinctrl_enable() frees the pctldev, and destroys its mutex. However, if the pin controller is registered using devm_pinctrl_register_and_init(), device resource management will call pinctrl_unregister() later. This will access the destroyed pctldev, which may crash the system. With poisoning enabled (CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y), the crash is imminent: sh-pfc e6050000.pin-controller: function 'foo' not supported sh-pfc e6050000.pin-controller: invalid function a in map table sh-pfc e6050000.pin-controller: error claiming hogs: -22 sh-pfc e6050000.pin-controller: could not claim hogs: -22 Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x001) at 0x6b6b6c2f pgd = 581794e0 [6b6b6c2f] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: : 1 [#1] SMP ARM Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc5-kzm9g-00484-gb3469948b11d02a0-dirty #1043 Hardware name: Generic SH73A0 (Flattened Device Tree) PC is at __lock_acquire+0xd8/0x1bf0 LR is at lock_acquire+0x98/0xb8 pc : [<c016fc84>] lr : [<c0171f80>] psr: 20000093 sp : df441be8 ip : df441c80 fp : 00000000 r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000001 r8 : 00000000 r7 : 00000000 r6 : c1084170 r5 : df5586e8 r4 : df43e040 r3 : 6b6b6c2f r2 : 6b6b6b6b r1 : 00000000 r0 : 6b6b6b6b Flags: nzCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Control: 10c5387d Table: 4000404a DAC: 00000051 Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x2557051f) Stack: (0xdf441be8 to 0xdf442000) ... [<c016fc84>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c0171f80>] (lock_acquire+0x98/0xb8) [<c0171f80>] (lock_acquire) from [<c0598888>] (__mutex_lock+0x7c/0x9ec) [<c0598888>] (__mutex_lock) from [<c0599210>] (mutex_lock_nested+0x18/0x20) [<c0599210>] (mutex_lock_nested) from [<c034cd18>] (pinctrl_unregister+0x48/0x158) [<c034cd18>] (pinctrl_unregister) from [<c03b3f30>] (release_nodes+0x218/0x25c) [<c03b3f30>] (release_nodes) from [<c03b08ac>] (driver_probe_device+0x200/0x318) [<c03b08ac>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c03aedd8>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x90/0xb8) My first idea was to add a !devres_find(pctldev->dev, devm_pinctrl_dev_release, NULL, NULL) check to the error path of pinctrl_enable(), which seems to work(TM). However, that's still not 100% correct and sufficient: - pinctrl_unregister() will do some cleanup (pinctrldev_list and debugfs) that should not be done, - When using pinctrl_register() or devm_pinctrl_register(), and pinctrl_enable() fails, all other cleanup done in pinctrl_unregister() never happens. Thoughts? Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html