[PATCH 01/10] i2c: add and export of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node() interface

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:59:12PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node() call requires quite often missing
> put_device(), and i2c_put_adapter() releases a device locked by
> i2c_get_adapter() only. In general module_put(adapter->owner) and
> put_device(dev) are not interchangeable.
> 
> This is a common error reproduction scenario as a result of the
> misusage described above (for clearness this is run on iMX6 platform
> with HDMI and I2C bus drivers compiled as kernel modules):
> 
>     root at mx6q:~# lsmod | grep i2c
>     i2c_imx                10213  0
>     root at mx6q:~# lsmod | grep dw_hdmi_imx
>     dw_hdmi_imx             3631  0
>     dw_hdmi                11846  1 dw_hdmi_imx
>     imxdrm                  8674  3 dw_hdmi_imx,imx_ipuv3_crtc,imx_ldb
>     drm_kms_helper        113765  5 dw_hdmi,imxdrm,imx_ipuv3_crtc,imx_ldb
>     root at mx6q:~# rmmod dw_hdmi_imx
>     root at mx6q:~# lsmod | grep i2c
>     i2c_imx                10213  -1
> 
>                                  ^^^^^
> 
>     root at mx6q:~# rmmod i2c_imx
>     rmmod: ERROR: Module i2c_imx is in use
> 
> To fix existing users of these interfaces and to avoid any further
> confusion and misusage in future, add one more interface
> of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node(), it is similar to i2c_get_adapter() in
> sense that an I2C bus device driver found and locked by user can be
> correctly unlocked by i2c_put_adapter().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy at mentor.com>
> ---
> The change is based on RFC http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg20257.html
> 
> * added new exported function declaration in include/linux/i2c.h
> * added put_device(dev) call right inside of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node()
> * corrected authorship of the change
> 
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/i2c.h    |  6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index 069a41f..0d902ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -1356,6 +1356,26 @@ struct i2c_adapter *of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node(struct device_node *node)
>  	return i2c_verify_adapter(dev);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node);
> +
> +struct i2c_adapter *of_get_i2c_adapter_by_node(struct device_node *node)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev;
> +	struct i2c_adapter *adapter;
> +
> +	dev = bus_find_device(&i2c_bus_type, NULL, node,
> +			      of_dev_node_match);
> +	if (!dev)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	adapter = i2c_verify_adapter(dev);
> +	if (adapter && !try_module_get(adapter->owner))
> +		adapter = NULL;
> +
> +	put_device(dev);

I don't think this is correct. Users still need to keep a reference to
the device, otherwise it can simply disappear even if the module stays
around (think sysfs bind/unbind attributes).

Looking at i2c_put_adapter() it seems like it would need to do more than
just drop the module reference. Then again, that probably means that we
need to add a get_device() somewhere in i2c_get_adapter() to balance the
put_device() in i2c_put_adapter().

Thierry
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