[PATCH] gpiolib: allocate memory atomically with a spinlock held

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue Dec 12 2023 - 05:55:11 EST


From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

We will eventually switch to protecting the GPIO descriptors with a mutex
but until then, we need to allocate memory for the label copy atomically
while we're holding the global spinlock.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/62588146-eed6-42f7-ba26-160226b109fe@moroto.mountain/T/#u
Fixes: f8d05e276b45 ("gpiolib: remove gpiochip_is_requested()")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 4e190be75dc2..6efe44570333 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -2399,7 +2399,15 @@ char *gpiochip_dup_line_label(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int offset)
if (!test_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags))
return NULL;

- label = kstrdup(desc->label, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /*
+ * FIXME: Once we mark gpiod_direction_input/output() and
+ * gpiod_get_direction() with might_sleep(), we'll be able to protect
+ * the GPIO descriptors with mutex (while value setting operations will
+ * become lockless).
+ *
+ * Until this happens, this allocation needs to be atomic.
+ */
+ label = kstrdup(desc->label, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!label)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

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