Bartosz Golaszewski efb8235bfd gpiolib: revert the attempt to protect the GPIO device list with an rwsem ...

This reverts commits 1979a28075 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device
mutex with a read-write semaphore") and 65a828bab1 ("gpiolib: use
a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices").

Unfortunately the legacy GPIO API that's still used in older code has to
translate numbers from the global GPIO numberspace to descriptors. This
results in a GPIO device lookup in every call to legacy functions. Some
of those functions - like gpio_set/get_value() - can be called from
atomic context so taking a sleeping lock that is an RW semaphore results
in an error.

We'll probably have to protect this list with SRCU.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/f7b5ff1e-8f34-4d98-a7be-b826cb897dc8@moroto.mountain/
Fixes: 1979a28075 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore")
Fixes: 65a828bab1 ("gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

2024-01-17 09:52:37 +01:00

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