Re: [PATCH v1] iio: trigger: warn about non-registered iio trigger getting attempt

[Dmitry Rokosov <DDRokosov@sberdevices.ru>]

Hi Jonathan,

I have one question about a cases when trigger owner is builtin module.
In the such cases trig->owner == null, because THIS_MODULE equals to
null. How do you think, should we take into account such situations?

IMHO we have to take in and save this information to trig_info during
trigger allocation call. For example we can check THIS_MODULE from the
iio_trigger_alloc(), save builtin status to trig_info and look into it
from iio_trigger_get().

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 06:15:05PM +0000, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> As a part of patch series about wrong trigger register() and get()
> calls order in the some IIO drivers trigger initialization path:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220524181150.9240-1-ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru/
> 
> runtime WARN() is added to alarm IIO driver authors who make such
> a mistake.
> 
> When IIO driver allocates a new IIO trigger, it should register it before
> calling get() operation. Otherwise, the next iio_trigger_put() will upset
> refcnt balance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
> ---
>  include/linux/iio/trigger.h | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/iio/trigger.h b/include/linux/iio/trigger.h
> index 4c69b144677b..4a008b952710 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iio/trigger.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iio/trigger.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,15 @@ static inline void iio_trigger_put(struct iio_trigger *trig)
>  static inline struct iio_trigger *iio_trigger_get(struct iio_trigger *trig)
>  {
>  	get_device(&trig->dev);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If driver hasn't called iio_trigger_register() before and trig->owner
> +	 * wasn't initialized properly, trigger will have wrong number of users
> +	 */
> +	WARN(!trig->owner,
> +	     "Ignore module getting for non-registered iio trigger %s\n",
> +	     trig->name);
> +
>  	__module_get(trig->owner);
>  
>  	return trig;
> -- 
> 2.36.0

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitry