Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: revert the attempt to protect the GPIO device list with an rwsem

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> This reverts commits 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device
> mutex with a read-write semaphore") and 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use
> a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices").
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> Unfortunately the legacy GPIO API that's still used in older code has to
> translate numbers from the global GPIO numberspace to descriptors. This
> results in a GPIO device lookup in every call to legacy functions. Some
> of those functions - like gpio_set/get_value() - can be called from
> atomic context so taking a sleeping lock that is an RW semaphore results
> in an error.
>
> We'll probably have to protect this list with SRCU.
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> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/f7b5ff1e-8f34-4d98-a7be-b826cb897dc8@moroto.mountain/
> Fixes: 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore")
> Fixes: 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices")
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Patch queued for fixes for this merge window.

Bart