Re: [PATCH] gpio: initialize descriptor SRCU structure before adding OF-based chips

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:39:20PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In certain situations we may end up taking the GPIO descriptor SRCU read
> > lock in of_gpiochip_add() before the SRCU struct is initialized. Move
> > the initialization before the call to of_gpiochip_add().
>
> ...
>
> This is a bit unclear why you moved to that place and how it had been tested.
>

I didn't move it, I just added SRCU before it. It can be triggered by
a simple hog from DT. The link leads to a crash report.

> > @@ -991,10 +991,6 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
> >       if (ret)
> >               goto err_cleanup_gdev_srcu;
> >
> > -     ret = of_gpiochip_add(gc);
> > -     if (ret)
> > -             goto err_free_gpiochip_mask;
> > -
> >       for (i = 0; i < gc->ngpio; i++) {
> >               struct gpio_desc *desc = &gdev->descs[i];
> >
>
> >               if (ret) {
> >                       for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
> >                               cleanup_srcu_struct(&gdev->descs[j].srcu);
> > -                     goto err_remove_of_chip;
> > +                     goto err_free_gpiochip_mask;
> >               }
> >
> >               if (gc->get_direction && gpiochip_line_is_valid(gc, i)) {
>
> >               }
> >       }
> >
> > -     ret = gpiochip_add_pin_ranges(gc);
> > +     ret = of_gpiochip_add(gc);
> >       if (ret)
> >               goto err_cleanup_desc_srcu;
> >
> > +     ret = gpiochip_add_pin_ranges(gc);
> > +     if (ret)
> > +             goto err_remove_of_chip;
> > +
> >       acpi_gpiochip_add(gc);
>
> My logic tells me that if you need to call gpiochip_add_pin_ranges() before
> calling of_gpiochip_add(). It won't collide right now, but allows to cleanup
> further (with the gpio-ranges parser be generalized for fwnodes and be moved
> to gpiolib.c from gpiolib-of.c).
>

But it was already called before gpiochip_add_pin_ranges() so it's
material for another patch.

Bart

> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>