Re: [PATCH 0/3] i2c: mux: don't access GPIOLIB internal structures

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bartosz,


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 3:02 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The backstory for this short series is that we are identyfing and
> removing all unauthorized uses of GPIOLIB structures across the kernel.
>
> For example: there are many users that access struct gpio_chip when the
> only user allowed to safely do this is the provider of that chip.
>
> We are very close to removing gpiochip_find(). Another function that
> poses a similar problem is gpiod_to_chip() which also returns the
> address of the underlying gpio_chip without assuring that it will not go
> away e.g. due to a hot-unplug event or a device unbind.
>
> We'll need to replace it with gpiod_to_gpio_device() across the entire
> tree. Let's start by actually providing it and adding the first user:
> the i2c-mux-gpio driver which dereferences the otherwise opaque struct
> gpio_desc.
>
> Let's also add a helper that allows to retrieve the address of the
> struct device backing the GPIO device as this is another valid use-case.
>
> Finally, let's un-include the GPIO private header and fix the code to
> access the device in a safe way.
>
> As the change is pretty minor, it would be best if patch 3/3 could be
> acked by the I2C mux maintainers and went through the GPIO tree.
> Otherwise, I can apply patches 1 and 2 and provide an immutable branch.
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
>   gpiolib: provide gpio_device_to_device()
>   gpiolib: provide gpiod_to_gpio_device()
>   i2c: mux: gpio: don't fiddle with GPIOLIB internals

The series:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Good job!

Yours,
Linus Walleij