[PATCH v6 2/5] pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Wed Jul 22 01:32:28 PDT 2026
On 7/13/26 10:37, Justin Yeh wrote:
> mtk_eint_do_init() creates an IRQ domain, populates it with a mapping for
> every EINT line and installs a chained handler on the parent interrupt,
> but none of these are ever released. This was harmless while the drivers
> were built-in, but now that they can be built as modules and
> unbound/rmmod'd it leaves behind a dangling IRQ domain, interrupt mappings
> whose chip data points at freed memory, and a chained handler that keeps
> firing into that freed data.
>
> The plain allocations in mtk_eint_do_init() already use the device-managed
> devm_*() helpers, so tear the remaining resources down the same way:
> register a devm action that detaches the chained handler, disposes of the
> per-line mappings and removes the IRQ domain. This mirrors the
> device-managed lifecycle adopted for the GPIO chip and keeps the whole
> EINT setup self-cleaning on unbind.
>
> Fixes: e46df235b4e6 ("pinctrl: mediatek: refactor EINT related code for all MediaTek pinctrl can fit")
> Signed-off-by: Justin Yeh <justin.yeh at mediatek.com>
> ---
> drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c
> index 47ac92ea98c2..7cd4c4a9fc77 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> */
>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> +#include <linux/device.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/gpio/driver.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> @@ -509,6 +510,24 @@ int mtk_eint_find_irq(struct mtk_eint *eint, unsigned long eint_n)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtk_eint_find_irq);
>
> +static void mtk_eint_teardown(void *data)
> +{
> + struct mtk_eint *eint = data;
> + unsigned int i, virq;
> +
> + /* Detach the demux handler so it can no longer reference freed data. */
> + irq_set_chained_handler_and_data(eint->irq, NULL, NULL);
add here:
synchronize_irq(eint->irq);
...so that we don't risk race conditions when tearing down.
after which:
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
> +
> + /* Dispose of all child mappings before the domain is removed. */
> + for (i = 0; i < eint->hw->ap_num; i++) {
> + virq = irq_find_mapping(eint->domain, i);
> + if (virq)
> + irq_dispose_mapping(virq);
> + }
> +
> + irq_domain_remove(eint->domain);
> +}
> +
> int mtk_eint_do_init(struct mtk_eint *eint, struct mtk_eint_pin *eint_pin)
> {
> unsigned int size, i, port, virq, inst = 0;
> @@ -601,7 +620,7 @@ int mtk_eint_do_init(struct mtk_eint *eint, struct mtk_eint_pin *eint_pin)
> irq_set_chained_handler_and_data(eint->irq, mtk_eint_irq_handler,
> eint);
>
> - return 0;
> + return devm_add_action_or_reset(eint->dev, mtk_eint_teardown, eint);
>
> err_eint:
> for (i = 0; i < eint->nbase; i++) {
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