Re: [PATCH 2/4 net] qca_spi: Fix SPI IRQ handling

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Thu Nov 23 2023 - 06:37:34 EST


On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 17:30 +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> The functions qcaspi_netdev_open/close are responsible of request &
> free of the SPI interrupt, which wasn't the best choice. Currently
> it's possible to trigger a double free of the interrupt by calling
> qcaspi_netdev_close() after qcaspi_netdev_open() has failed.
> So let us split IRQ allocation & enabling, so we can take advantage
> of a device managed IRQ and also fix the issue.
>
> Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@xxxxxxx>

The change makes sense, but the changelog is confusing. 

qcaspi_netdev_close() and qcaspi_netdev_open() are invoked only via
ndo_open and ndo_close(), right? So qcaspi_netdev_close() will never be
invoked qcaspi_netdev_open(), failure - that is when IFF_UP is not set.

Cheers,

Paolo