linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: exynos: do not rely on 'users' counter in ISR

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Message-ID: <20201005083222.GA8300@kozik-lap>
Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 10:32:22 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: exynos: do not rely on 'users' counter in ISR

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 10:24:20PM -0700, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com wrote:
> The order in which 'users' counter is decremented vs calling drivers'
> close() method is implementation specific, and we should not rely on
> it. Let's introduce driver private flag and use it to signal ISR
> to exit when device is being closed.
> 
> This has a side-effect of fixing issue of accessing inut->users
> outside of input->mutex protection.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/adc/exynos_adc.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof