This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gpiolib: Fix unaligned used of reference counters
to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
gpiolib-fix-unaligned-used-of-reference-counters.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f4833b8cc7edab57d3f3033e549111a546c2e02b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 19:10:02 +0200
Subject: gpiolib: Fix unaligned used of reference counters
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f4833b8cc7edab57d3f3033e549111a546c2e02b upstream.
gpiolib relies on the reference counters to clean up the gpio_device
structure.
Although the number of get/put is properly aligned on gpiolib.c
itself, it does not take into consideration how the referece counters
are affected by other external functions such as cdev_add and device_add.
Because of this, after the last call to put_device, the reference counter
has a value of +3, therefore never calling gpiodevice_release.
Due to the fact that some of the device has already been cleaned on
gpiochip_remove, the library will end up OOPsing the kernel (e.g. a call
to of_gpiochip_find_and_xlate).
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -438,7 +438,6 @@ static void gpiodevice_release(struct de
{
struct gpio_device *gdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- cdev_del(&gdev->chrdev);
list_del(&gdev->list);
ida_simple_remove(&gpio_ida, gdev->id);
kfree(gdev->label);
@@ -471,7 +470,6 @@ static int gpiochip_setup_dev(struct gpi
/* From this point, the .release() function cleans up gpio_device */
gdev->dev.release = gpiodevice_release;
- get_device(&gdev->dev);
pr_debug("%s: registered GPIOs %d to %d on device: %s (%s)\n",
__func__, gdev->base, gdev->base + gdev->ngpio - 1,
dev_name(&gdev->dev), gdev->chip->label ? : "generic");
@@ -742,6 +740,8 @@ void gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *c
* be removed, else it will be dangling until the last user is
* gone.
*/
+ cdev_del(&gdev->chrdev);
+ device_del(&gdev->dev);
put_device(&gdev->dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_remove);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.6/gpiolib-fix-unaligned-used-of-reference-counters.patch
queue-4.6/gpiolib-fix-null-pointer-deference.patch
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