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Andy Shevchenko 6fda593f30 gpio: mockup: Convert to use software nodes 
The gpio-mockup driver creates the properties that are shared between
platform and GPIO devices. Because of that, the properties may not
be removed at the proper point of time without provoking a use-after-free
as shown in the following backtrace:

  refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 103 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd1/0x120
  ...
  Call Trace:
  kobject_put+0xdc/0xf0
  software_node_notify_remove+0xa8/0xc0
  device_del+0x15a/0x3e0

That's why the driver has to manage the lifetime of the software nodes
by itself.

The problem originates from the old device_add_properties() API, but
has been only revealed after the commit bd1e336aa8 ("driver core: platform:
Remove platform_device_add_properties()"). Hence, it's used as a landmark
for backporting.

Fixes: bd1e336aa8 ("driver core: platform: Remove platform_device_add_properties()")
Reported-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
[Bartosz: tweaked local variable placement]
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
2021-10-06 13:04:04 +02:00
arch kvm: fix objtool relocation warning 2021-10-03 13:34:19 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-10-01 2021-10-02 11:00:36 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.15-rc4 2021-10-03 11:19:02 -07:00
drivers gpio: mockup: Convert to use software nodes 2021-10-06 13:04:04 +02:00
fs elf: don't use MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE for elf interpreter mappings 2021-10-03 14:02:58 -07:00
include Driver core fixes for 5.15-rc4 2021-10-03 11:10:09 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.init' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-09-24 10:18:07 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel - Tell the compiler to always inline is_percpu_thread() 2021-10-03 10:49:00 -07:00
lib lib/zlib_inflate/inffast: check config in C to avoid unused function warning 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
net af_unix: fix races in sk_peer_pid and sk_peer_cred accesses 2021-09-30 14:18:40 +01:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts kasan: always respect CONFIG_KASAN_STACK 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
security selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups 2021-09-23 12:30:59 -04:00
sound ALSA: pcsp: Make hrtimer forwarding more robust 2021-09-28 10:58:08 +02:00
tools objtool: print out the symbol type when complaining about it 2021-10-03 13:45:48 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Eleven fixes for the ksmbd kernel server, including an important fix disabling weak NTLMv1 authentication, and seven security (improved buffer overflow checks) fixes 2021-10-02 17:43:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc4 2021-10-03 14:08:47 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.