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From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: f.fainelli@gmail.com, rjui@broadcom.com, sbranden@broadcom.com,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, nsaenz@kernel.org,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, p.rosenberger@kunbus.com,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: do not unregister controller in shutdown handler
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 20:30:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af8df53c-93e9-f157-9308-b0b69908e112@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211004154436.GY3544071@ziepe.ca>

On 04.10.21 at 17:44, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

>
> Well, that is up to the driver implementing this. It looks like device
> shutdown is called before the userspace is all nuked so yes,
> concurrency with userspace is a possible concern here.
>

So the TPM driver has to handle remove() after shutdown() anyway, right?
Because even if not caused by the BCM2835 drivers controller unregistration
something else could unload the module and the problem (NULL pointer access)
would be the same.

Regards,
Lino

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-04 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 19:56 [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: do not unregister controller in shutdown handler Lino Sanfilippo
2021-09-28 20:08 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-29  8:38   ` Aw: " Lino Sanfilippo
2021-10-01 17:54 ` Mark Brown
2021-10-03 15:25   ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-10-04 12:49     ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 13:17       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-04 14:12         ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 15:44           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-04 16:31             ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 16:36               ` Florian Fainelli
2021-10-04 16:51                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-04 16:55                   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-10-04 17:13                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-04 17:27                       ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 17:35                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-04 17:44                         ` Florian Fainelli
2021-10-04 17:56                           ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 17:05                   ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 16:52                 ` Mark Brown
2021-10-04 16:57                   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-10-04 18:30             ` Lino Sanfilippo [this message]
2021-10-04 18:37               ` Jason Gunthorpe

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