linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Set suppress_bind

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 02:03:09 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>, agross@...nel.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dianders@...omium.org, rnayak@...eaurora.org, ilina@...eaurora.org,
        lsrao@...eaurora.org, Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>,
        <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Set suppress_bind_attrs flag

Quoting Maulik Shah (2020-06-21 23:53:25)
> rpmh-rsc driver is fairly core to system and should not be removable
> once its probed. However it allows to unbind driver from sysfs using
> below command which results into a crash on sc7180.

What is the crash? The world falls apart because rpmh APIs start
referencing pointers that point to freed memory?

> 
> echo 18200000.rsc > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/rpmh/unbind
> 
> Lets prevent unbind at runtime by setting suppress_bind_attrs flag.

Ok. But when the Android module brigade comes knocking they'll have to
revert this change and solve this problem too. Have fun!

> 
> Signed-off-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@...eaurora.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>