Make sure to hold the gpio_lock when removing the gpio device from the gpio_devices list (when dropping the last reference) to avoid corrupting the list when there are concurrent accesses. Fixes: ff2b13592299 ("gpio: make the gpiochip a real device") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.6 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index e1016bc8cf14..42bdc55a15f9 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -475,8 +475,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_line_is_valid); static void gpiodevice_release(struct device *dev) { struct gpio_device *gdev = container_of(dev, struct gpio_device, dev); + unsigned long flags; + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); list_del(&gdev->list); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); + ida_free(&gpio_ida, gdev->id); kfree_const(gdev->label); kfree(gdev->descs); -- 2.26.2