Re: [PATCH 4/6] gpio: pisosr: Use devm_gpiochip_add_data() to simplify remove path

From: Andrew Davis
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 13:02:29 EST


On 3/7/23 11:44 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:54:30AM -0600, Andrew Davis wrote:
Use devm version of gpiochip add function to handle removal for us.

While here update copyright and module author.

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- mutex_destroy(&gpio->lock);

You need to wrap this into devm.


I was thinking that but it seems there is no such thing. Most drivers
just ignore unwinding mutex_init() since it doesn't allocate anything.

mutex_destroy() is a NOP unless you are doing DEBUG builds were
it sets a magic value to check for use-after-free issues.

Andrew