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Message-ID: <CACRpkdb8idg-rtbxLgGjGmfLN3SUWP4Wt4SKfuHd496P+kVL5w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:15:55 +0100
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] gpiolib: pin GPIO devices in place during
descriptor lookup
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 4:59 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
> There's time between when we locate the relevant descriptor during
> lookup and when we actually take the reference to its parent GPIO
> device where - if the GPIO device in question is removed - we'll end up
> with a dangling pointer to freed memory. Make sure devices cannot be
> removed until we hold a new reference to the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Also looks right to me!
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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