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[194.223.74.160]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-36ca39b8eb3sm23369977eec.27.2026.11.05.06.57.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:57:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 22:57:11 +0800 From: Kent Gibson To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski , Linus Walleij , Andy Shevchenko , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: cdev: fix waitqueue deadlock on chip deregistration Message-ID: <20261105145711.GA92894@rigel> References: <20261105-gpio-cdev-srcu-deadlock-v1-1-6047117030ec@oss.qualcomm.com> X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261105-gpio-cdev-srcu-deadlock-v1-1-6047117030ec@oss.qualcomm.com> On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 03:47:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > The three calls to wait_event_interruptible_locked() sleep while holding > gdev->srcu. In gpiochip_remove(), synchronize_srcu() runs before > gcdev_unregister(). The latter fires the waitqueue wakeup events from > the notifier callbacks, so a reader blocked on an empty FIFO never leaves > its SRCU section and the removal will block forever in the former. > > Since rcu_access_pointer() is a plain READ_ONCE(), we don't really need > to take the SRCU read lock. We don't access the chip structure after > checking it. Remove the lock and instead make the waitqueue aware of the > possible chip deregistration. Keep the initial gdev->chip checks as > removing them may change the error codes visible to user-space, for > instance in cases of a non-blocking read on an empty fifo. > > Ideally, we'd factor out the common code into a dedicated helper but > there doesn't seem to exist a clean way of passing a kfifo as argument > so let's open-code the three call sites. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Fixes: d83cee3d2bb1 ("gpio: protect the pointer to gpio_chip in gpio_device with SRCU") > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski > --- > I've had it on my TODO list for a while. I vaguely remember someone > reporting it to me but can't find the reference anymore. Please feel > free to add a Reported-by: and Closes:. > Isn't this the same as patch 4/7 in Adrian's series[1]? Cheers, Kent. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20261103-gpiolib-chip-removal-v5-4-aambrozewicz@nvidia.com/