Re: [PATCH 0/2] gpio-cdev: Release IRQ used by gpio-cdev on gpio chip removal

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 12:10 PM Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlincom> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When a gpio chip device is removed while some related gpio are used by
> the user-space (gpiomon for instance), the following warning can appear:
>   remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/233', leaking at least 'gpiomon'
>   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 72 at fs/proc/generic.c:717 remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
>   ...
>   Call trace:
>     remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
>     unregister_irq_proc+0xd0/0x104
>     free_desc+0x4c/0xc4
>     irq_free_descs+0x6c/0x90
>     irq_dispose_mapping+0x104/0x14c
>     gpiochip_irqchip_remove+0xcc/0x1a4
>     gpiochip_remove+0x48/0x100
>   ...
>
> Indeed, even if the gpio removal is notified to the gpio-cdev, the
> IRQ used is not released when it should be.
>
> This series calls the gpio removal notifier sooner in the removal
> process in order to give a chance to a notifier function to release
> the IRQ before releasing the IRQ mapping and adds the needed
> operations to release the IRQ in the gpio cdev notifier function.
>
> Best regards,
> Hervé Codina
>
> Herve Codina (2):
>   gpiolib: call gcdev_unregister() sooner in the removal operations
>   gpiolib: cdev: release IRQs when the gpio chip device is removed
>
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c      |  8 +++++++-
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>

Thanks for taking a stab at it. I saw this issue some time ago, tried
to fix it directly in interrupt procfs code[1], got yelled at by
Thomas Gleixner for 20 or so emails and eventually forgot about it.
Nice to see someone tackle it again.

Bart

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230814093621.23209-1-brgl@xxxxxxxx/