Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio-cdev: Release IRQ used by gpio-cdev on gpio chip removal

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 08:31:33PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When a gpio chip device is removed while some related gpio are used by
> > the user-space (gpiomon for instance), the following warning can appear:
> >   remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/233', leaking at least 'gpiomon'
> >   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 72 at fs/proc/generic.c:717 remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
> >   ...
> >   Call trace:
> >     remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
> >     unregister_irq_proc+0xd0/0x104
> >     free_desc+0x4c/0xc4
> >     irq_free_descs+0x6c/0x90
> >     irq_dispose_mapping+0x104/0x14c
> >     gpiochip_irqchip_remove+0xcc/0x1a4
> >     gpiochip_remove+0x48/0x100
> >   ...
> >
> > Indeed, even if the gpio removal is notified to the gpio-cdev, the
> > IRQ used is not released when it should be.
> >
> > This series calls the gpio removal notifier sooner in the removal
> > process in order to give a chance to a notifier function to release
> > the IRQ before releasing the IRQ mapping and adds the needed
> > operations to release the IRQ in the gpio cdev notifier function.
> >
> > Compared to the previous iteration:
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20240220111019.133697-1-herve.codina@bootlin.com/
> > this v2 series set gdev->chip to NULL before calling gcdev_unregister().
> >
> > Also, this v2 series was rebased on top of for-next branch of the GPIO
> > tree.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Hervé Codina
> >
> > Changes v1 -> v2:
> >   - Patch 1
> >     Set gdev->chip to NULL before calling gcdev_unregister()
> >
> >   - Patch 2
> >     No changes
> >
> > Herve Codina (2):
> >   gpiolib: call gcdev_unregister() sooner in the removal operations
> >   gpiolib: cdev: release IRQs when the gpio chip device is removed
> >
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c      |  6 +++++-
> >  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >
>
> Sorry but this is just papering over the real issue. I'd say NAK for
> now as I'd really prefer to get to the root of the problem and fix it
> for all GPIO interrupt users.
>
> Kent, Linus: what do you think?
>

Agreed - a broader solution makes sense to me.

Cheers,
Kent.