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

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 9:15 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 8:21 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
>
> > Agreed and the big picture - just like with the reason behind the SRCU
> > rework - is the fact that even static GPIO chips defined in ACPI or DT
> > can be unbound. Unless you want to make the decision that we
> > arbitrarily suppress_bind_attrs for all GPIO chips which I don't think
> > you do.
> >
> > I have shown in the discussion under the previous iteration that a
> > static GPIO chip defined in DT that is also marked as an
> > interrupt-controller may have interrupts requested directly from its
> > irq domain bypassing the .to_irq() callback. As long as this GPIO chip
> > may be unbound (and we do not restrict this) it means the splat
> > mentioned here can be triggered from user-space with a simple rmmod
> > because a requested irq does not increase the module reference count
> > nor do device links seem to work for interrupts not associated with a
> > struct device explicitly.
> >
> > I DO want to fix it, don't get me wrong. I don't want to just leave it
> > like this, especially since we've made so much progress with
> > hotpluggability recently. I just don't believe this is the right fix,
> > I will try to come up with a solution that addresses the issue
> > globally.
>
> OK I trust you to come up with something better for sure!
>
> With regards to the ability to unbind/rebind drivers from sysfs, true.
> I have heard about that as a counterargument to many things.
>
> The problem is that I have never heard about a user unbinding/binding
> a driver from sysfs for anything but debugging a drivers ability to
> bind/unbind. Partly I feel that thing should just be moved
> to debugfs given the usecase and because it just looks like a way for
> attackers to provoke crashes given how some drivers look.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

That's not the only thing - device unbind can also be triggered by
removing the module providing the driver which is a completely normal
operation for user-space.

Bart