Re: [PATCH] gpio: shared: fix a deadlock

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 10:53:56AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It's possible that the auxiliary proxy device we add when setting up the
> GPIO controller exposing shared pins, will get matched and probed
> immediately. The gpio-proxy-driver will then retrieve the shared
> descriptor structure. That will cause a recursive mutex locking and
> a deadlock because we're already holding the gpio_shared_lock in
> gpio_device_setup_shared() and try to take it again in
> devm_gpiod_shared_get() like this:
> 
> 
> Fixes: a060b8c511ab ("gpiolib: implement low-level, shared GPIO support")
> Reported-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fimuvblfy2cmn7o4wzcxjzrux5mwhvlvyxfsgeqs6ore2xg75i@ax46d3sfmdux/
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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With best wishes
Dmitry