Re: [PATCH] iio: core: fix ioctl handlers removal

From: Alexandru Ardelean
Date: Fri Apr 23 2021 - 03:17:57 EST


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:26 PM Tomasz Duszynski
<tomasz.duszynski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently ioctl handlers are removed twice. For the first time during
> iio_device_unregister() then later on inside
> iio_device_unregister_eventset() and iio_buffers_free_sysfs_and_mask().
> Double free leads to kernel panic.
>
> Fix this by not touching ioctl handlers list directly but rather
> letting code responsible for registration call the matching cleanup
> routine itself.
>

This change is missing this tag:

Fixes: 8dedcc3eee3ac ("iio: core: centralize ioctl() calls to the main chardev")

With that tag added:
Acked-by: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@xxxxxxxxx>

Apologies for the breakage.
Also, I wasn't sure if Jonathan or anyone else wanted to do this change.

Thanks for the patch
Alex

> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tomasz.duszynski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> index d92c58a94fe4..98944cfc7331 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> @@ -1939,9 +1939,6 @@ void iio_device_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>
> indio_dev->info = NULL;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_safe(h, t, &iio_dev_opaque->ioctl_handlers, entry)
> - list_del(&h->entry);
> -
> iio_device_wakeup_eventset(indio_dev);
> iio_buffer_wakeup_poll(indio_dev);
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>