[PATCH 4.7 099/186] iommu/exynos: Suppress unbinding to prevent system failure

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 10:13:25 EST


4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit b54b874fbaf5e024723e50dfb035a9916d6752b4 upstream.

Removal of IOMMU driver cannot be done reliably, so Exynos IOMMU driver
doesn't support this operation. It is essential for system operation, so
it makes sense to prevent unbinding by disabling bind/unbind sysfs
feature for SYSMMU controller driver to avoid kernel ops or trashing
memory caused by such operation.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
@@ -709,6 +709,7 @@ static struct platform_driver exynos_sys
.name = "exynos-sysmmu",
.of_match_table = sysmmu_of_match,
.pm = &sysmmu_pm_ops,
+ .suppress_bind_attrs = true,
}
};