From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> This is a second iteration of the changes that aim at fixing the situation in which the user-space can provoke a NULL-pointer derefence in the kernel when a GPIO device that's in use by user-space is removed. I didn't add the review tags as the code changes significantly. v2 -> v3: - drop the helper variable in patch 1/2 as we won't be using it in 2/2 - refactor patch 2/2 to use locking wrappers around the syscall callbacks v1 -> v2: - add missing gdev->chip checks in patch 1/2 - add a second patch that protects the structures that can be accessed by user-space calls against concurrent removal Bartosz Golaszewski (2): gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences gpiolib: protect the GPIO device against being dropped while in use by user-space drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 + drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 5 + 3 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.37.2