Re: [PATCH v10] gpio: virtuser: new virtual testing driver for the GPIO API

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue Jul 09 2024 - 03:42:20 EST


From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>


On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:29:12 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> The GPIO subsystem used to have a serious problem with undefined behavior
> and use-after-free bugs on hot-unplug of GPIO chips. This can be
> considered a corner-case by some as most GPIO controllers are enabled
> early in the boot process and live until the system goes down but most
> GPIO drivers do allow unbind over sysfs, many are loadable modules that
> can be (force) unloaded and there are also GPIO devices that can be
> dynamically detached, for instance CP2112 which is a USB GPIO expender.
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] gpio: virtuser: new virtual testing driver for the GPIO API
commit: 91581c4b3f29e2e22aeb1a62e842d529ca638b2d

Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>