Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] gpio-cdev: Release IRQ used by gpio-cdev on gpio chip removal

[Herve Codina]

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:34:23 +0100
Herve Codina <herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When a gpio chip device is removed while some related gpio are used by
> the user-space (gpiomon for instance), the following warning can appear:
>   remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/233', leaking at least 'gpiomon'
>   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 72 at fs/proc/generic.c:717 remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
>   ...
>   Call trace:
>     remove_proc_entry+0x190/0x19c
>     unregister_irq_proc+0xd0/0x104
>     free_desc+0x4c/0xc4
>     irq_free_descs+0x6c/0x90
>     irq_dispose_mapping+0x104/0x14c
>     gpiochip_irqchip_remove+0xcc/0x1a4
>     gpiochip_remove+0x48/0x100
>   ...
> 
> Indeed, even if the gpio removal is notified to the gpio-cdev, the
> IRQ used is not released when it should be.
> 
> This series calls the gpio removal notifier sooner in the removal
> process in order to give a chance to a notifier function to release
> the IRQ before releasing the IRQ mapping and adds the needed
> operations to release the IRQ in the gpio cdev notifier function.
> 

This series is obsolete.
The issue is fixed by the following Bartosz's patch:
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240919135104.3583-1-brgl@xxxxxxxx/

Best regards,
Hervé