Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: free irqs that are still requested when the chip is being removed

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If we remove a GPIO chip that is also an interrupt controller with users
> not having freed some interrupts, we'll end up leaking resources as
> indicated by the following warning:
>
>   remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/30', leaking at least 'gpio'
>
> As there's no way of notifying interrupt users about the irqchip going
> away and the interrupt subsystem is not plugged into the driver model and
> so not all cases can be handled by devlinks, we need to make sure to free
> all interrupts before the complete the removal of the provider.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Late to the show, but it's a great change and something we should
have fixed ages ago (as usual...)

Thanks!
Linus Walleij