From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] spi: fix misleading controller deregistration kernel-doc
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:18:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312151817.32100-6-johan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312151817.32100-1-johan@kernel.org>
The controller reference count is not decremented on deregistration if
the controller has been allocated using devm_spi_alloc_host/target().
Amend the kernel-doc for devm_spi_register_controller() and
spi_unregister_controller() so that it reflects this (more recent)
behaviour.
Fixes: 5e844cc37a5c ("spi: Introduce device-managed SPI controller allocation")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
index 34aca18a96d8..b5e2f1e1a89e 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -3523,7 +3523,8 @@ static void devm_spi_unregister_controller(void *ctlr)
* Context: can sleep
*
* Register a SPI device as with spi_register_controller() which will
- * automatically be unregistered and freed.
+ * automatically be unregistered (and freed unless it has been allocated using
+ * devm_spi_alloc_host/target()).
*
* Return: zero on success, else a negative error code.
*/
@@ -3557,7 +3558,8 @@ static int __unregister(struct device *dev, void *null)
*
* This must be called from context that can sleep.
*
- * Note that this function also drops a reference to the controller.
+ * Note that this function also drops a reference to the controller unless it
+ * has been allocated using devm_spi_alloc_host/target().
*/
void spi_unregister_controller(struct spi_controller *ctlr)
{
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 15:18 [PATCH 0/5] spi: controller registration fixes Johan Hovold
2026-03-12 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] spi: fix use-after-free on controller registration failure Johan Hovold
2026-03-12 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] spi: fix statistics allocation Johan Hovold
2026-03-12 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] spi: drop unused devres " Johan Hovold
2026-03-12 15:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] spi: fix misleading controller registration kernel-doc Johan Hovold
2026-03-12 15:18 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-03-16 18:39 ` [PATCH 0/5] spi: controller registration fixes Mark Brown
2026-03-17 11:50 ` Mark Brown
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