Re: [PATCH 2/2] genirq: proc: fix a procfs entry leak

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, Aug 25 2023 at 00:36, brgl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:12:41 +0200, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Here a GPIO device - that is also an irq chip - is unbound (this is a testing
> module unbound during a test-case but it can be anything else, like an I2C
> expander for which the driver is unloaded) while some users called
> request_irq() on its interrupts (this is orthogonal to gpiod_get() and doesn't
> take a reference to the module, so nothing is stopping us from
> unloading it)

You just described the real problem in this sentence. So why are you
trying to cure a symptom?

Thanks,

        tglx