Re: [PATCH] spi: Fix spi device unregister flow

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 1:07 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 04:56:38PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > When an SPI device is unregistered, the spi->controller->cleanup() is
> > called in the device's release callback. That's wrong for a couple of
> > reasons:
> >
> > 1. spi_dev_put() can be called before spi_add_device() is called. And
> >    it's spi_add_device() that calls spi_setup(). This will cause clean()
> >    to get called without the spi device ever being setup.
>
> Well, yes, but it's not a big problem in practice so far:
>
> I've checked all drivers and there are only four which are affected
> by this: spi-mpc512x-psc.c spi-pic32.c spi-s3c64xx.c spi-st-ssc4.c
>
> They all fiddle with the chipselect GPIO in their ->cleanup hook
> and the GPIO may not have been requested yet because that happens
> during ->setup.
>
> All the other drivers merely invoke kzalloc() on ->setup and kfree()
> on ->cleanup.  The order doesn't matter in this case because
> kfree(NULL) is a no-op.

Thanks, Lukas, for jumping in.

> > 2. There's no guarantee that the controller's driver would be present by
> >    the time the spi device's release function gets called.
>
> How so?  spi_devices are instantiated on ->probe of the controller
> via spi_register_controller() and destroyed on ->remove via
> spi_unregister_controller().  I don't see how the controller driver
> could ever be unavailable, so this point seems moot.
>
>
> > Fix these issues by simply moving the cleanup from the device release
> > callback to the actual spi_unregister_device() function.
>
> Unfortunately the fix is wrong, it introduces a new problem:
>
> > @@ -713,6 +717,8 @@ void spi_unregister_device(struct spi_device *spi)
> >       if (!spi)
> >               return;
> >
> > +     spi_cleanup(spi);
> > +
> >       if (spi->dev.of_node) {
> >               of_node_clear_flag(spi->dev.of_node, OF_POPULATED);
> >               of_node_put(spi->dev.of_node);
>
> Now you're running ->cleanup before the SPI slave's driver is unbound.
> That's bad, the driver may need to access the physical device on unbound,
> e.g. to quiesce interrupts.  That may not work now because the
> slave's controller_state is gone.
>
> NAK, this needs to be reverted.

I guess somebody should send the actual revert. Are you going to do so?


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko