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16ba3b0c66The SPI controller API is asymmetric in that a controller is allocated and registered in two step, while it is freed as part of deregistration. [1] This is especially unfortunate as any driver data is freed along with the controller, something which has lead to use-after-free bugs during deregistration when drivers tear down resources after deregistering the controller (or tear down resources that may still be in use before deregistering the controller in an attempt to work around the API). To reduce the risk of such bugs being introduced a device managed allocation interface was added, but this arguably made things even less consistent as now whether the controller gets freed as part of deregistration depends on how it was allocated. [2][3] With most drivers converted to use managed allocation in preparation for fixing the API, the remaining 16 drivers can be converted in one tree-wide change. Ten of those drivers use the bitbang interface and can be converted by simply removing the extra reference already taken by spi_bitbang_start() (and updating the two bitbang drivers that use managed allocation). [4] Fix the API inconsistency by no longer dropping a reference when deregistering non-devres allocated controllers. [1] |
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