linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: mxs-lradc oops when unloading module

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:30:23 -0300
From:	Otavio Salvador <otavio@...ystems.com.br>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: mxs-lradc oops when unloading module

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org> wrote:
>> From what I could grasp, it might be related to the IIO subsystem but
>> I couldn't find the culprit.
>>
>> It seems "iio_device_unregister_trigger_consumer", as:
>>
>> void iio_device_unregister_trigger_consumer(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>> {
>> /* Clean up an associated but not attached trigger reference */
>> if (indio_dev->trig)
>> iio_trigger_put(indio_dev->trig);
>> }
>>
>> and , as:
>>
>> static inline void iio_trigger_put(struct iio_trigger *trig)
>> {
>> module_put(trig->ops->owner);
>> put_device(&trig->dev);
>> }
>>
>> so, somehow the trig->ops is NULL here.
>>
>> Do someone has a clue?
>>
> I think the issue is more core to iio trigger handling than that, you
> have just been unlucky enough to hit a bug that has been there a while.
>
> In iio_trigger_unregister we call
> iio_device_unregister which in turn calls device_del (as intended) and
> device_put (as not!).  Then we get an additional device_put from
> iio_trigger_free giving us one more than we should have an resulting
> in a double attempt to free the device.
>
> Could you try the following change and see if it solves the problem?
> (the comment abov is 'interesting' and stupid given I've long ago
> forgotten what it refers to, but it could be related to this issue...)
>
> From 238faf76acaa9214b0eb607742dd14b134469328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:00:04 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] iio:trigger: device_unregister->device_del to avoid double
>  free
>
> iio_trigger unregistration and freeing has been separated in this
> code for some time, but it looks like the calls to the device
> handling were not appropriately updated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
> index 4d6c7d8..ea8a414 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ void iio_trigger_unregister(struct iio_trigger *trig_info)
>
>         ida_simple_remove(&iio_trigger_ida, trig_info->id);
>         /* Possible issue in here */
> -       device_unregister(&trig_info->dev);
> +       device_del(&trig_info->dev);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(iio_trigger_unregister);

Tested-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@...ystems.com.br>

It does fix the Oops for me.

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