On 28/10/15 06:53, Vinod Koul wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote: >>>>> How about just calling free_irq()? That's how you'd typically handle this. >>>> >>>> Yes, however, the interrupt is requested by devm_request_irq(). I guess >>>> I could call devm_free_irq() here? >>> >>> Just use request_irq() instead of devm_request_irq(). You have the same >>> issue on the error path in the probe function anyway and also need to add >>> the free_irq() before the tasklet_kill() there as well. >> >> I was wondering about that but the tasklets should never be scheduled if >> the probe does not succeed, so I think it is ok. > > This is actually very racy, if probe fails but due to devm_ calls your irq > is alive till it freed by core > > And a faulty device triggering irq can complicate matters, so for irq IMHO > we don't get much benefit with devm_ variant That's fine, I will drop the devm_ usage here then. Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
