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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 2/2] gpiolib: protect the GPIO device against being dropped while in use by user-space
On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 04:04:44PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
>
> While any of the GPIO cdev syscalls is in progress, the kernel can call
> gpiochip_remove() (for instance, when a USB GPIO expander is disconnected)
> which will set gdev->chip to NULL after which any subsequent access will
> cause a crash.
>
> To avoid that: use an RW-semaphore in which the syscalls take it for
> reading (so that we don't needlessly prohibit the user-space from calling
> syscalls simultaneously) while gpiochip_remove() takes it for writing so
> that it can only happen once all syscalls return.
>
> Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ("gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines")
> Fixes: 3c0d9c635ae2 ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL")
> Fixes: aad955842d1c ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL")
> Fixes: a54756cb24ea ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_CONFIG_IOCTL")
> Fixes: 7b8e00d98168 ("gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_VALUES_IOCTL")
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> [Nick: fixed a build failure with CDEV_V1 disabled]

> Co-authored-by: Nick Hainke <vincent@systemli.org>

In Linux kernel there is no such tag. And in case you want to use
Co-developed-by, you also need to add the respective SoB one.

> Reviewed-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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