[PATCH] gpiolib: Avoid side effects in gpio_is_visible()

From: Chris Packham
Date: Fri May 12 2023 - 00:28:27 EST


Calling gpiod_to_irq() creates an irq_desc for the GPIO. This is not
something that should happen when just exporting the GPIO via sysfs. The
effect of this was observed as triggering a warning in
gpiochip_disable_irq() when kexec()ing after exporting a GPIO.

Remove the call to gpiod_to_irq() from gpio_is_visible(). The actual
intended creation of the irq_desc comes via edge_store() when requested
by the user.

Fixes: ebbeba120ab2 ("gpio: sysfs: fix gpio attribute-creation race")
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Notes:
This is technically a v2 of
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230510001151.3946931-1-chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
but the solution is so different it's probably best to treat it as a new
patch.

drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
index 530dfd19d7b5..f859dcd1cbf3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
@@ -362,8 +362,6 @@ static umode_t gpio_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
if (!show_direction)
mode = 0;
} else if (attr == &dev_attr_edge.attr) {
- if (gpiod_to_irq(desc) < 0)
- mode = 0;
if (!show_direction && test_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags))
mode = 0;
}
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2.40.1