android_kernel_motorola_sm6375/drivers/leds
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Milo Kim d1aa577f5e leds: turn off the LED and wait for completion on unregistering LED class device
Workqueue, 'set_brightness_work' is used for scheduling brightness control.
This workqueue is canceled when the LED class device is unregistered.
Currently, LED subsystem handles like below.

  cancel_work_sync(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work)
  led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF)

However, this could be a problem.
Workqueue is going to be canceled but LED device needs to be off.
The worst case is null pointer access due to scheduling a workqueue.

LED module is loaded.
  LED driver private data is allocated by using devm_zalloc().

LED module is unloaded.
  led_classdev_unregister() is called.
    cancel_work_sync()
      led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF)
        schedule_work() if LED driver uses brightness_set_blocking()
        In the meantime, driver private data will be freed.

        ..scheduling..

        brightness_set_blocking() callback is invoked.
          For the brightness control, LED driver tries to access private
          data but resource is removed!

To avoid this problem, LED subsystem should turn off the brightness first
and wait for completion.

  led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF)
  flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work)

It guarantees that LED driver turns off the brightness prior to
resource management.

Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
2016-01-04 09:57:37 +01:00
..
trigger leds: triggers: oneshot: fix module license specification 2016-01-04 09:57:36 +01:00
dell-led.c
Kconfig
led-class-flash.c leds: flash: Remove checking for state < 1 in flash_strobe_store() 2016-01-04 09:57:37 +01:00
led-class.c leds: turn off the LED and wait for completion on unregistering LED class device 2016-01-04 09:57:37 +01:00
led-core.c leds: core: Drivers shouldn't enforce SYNC/ASYNC brightness setting 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
led-triggers.c
leds-88pm860x.c leds: 88pm860x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-aat1290.c leds: aat1290: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
leds-adp5520.c leds: adp5520: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-asic3.c
leds-bcm6328.c leds: bcm6328: add missing of_node_put 2015-11-03 09:00:04 +01:00
leds-bcm6358.c leds: bcm6358: add missing of_node_put 2015-11-03 09:00:02 +01:00
leds-bd2802.c leds: bd2802: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-blinkm.c leds: blinkm: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-clevo-mail.c
leds-cobalt-qube.c
leds-cobalt-raq.c
leds-da903x.c leds: da903x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-da9052.c leds: da9052: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-dac124s085.c leds: dac124d085: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-fsg.c
leds-gpio-register.c
leds-gpio.c leds: gpio: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:35 +01:00
leds-hp6xx.c
leds-ipaq-micro.c
leds-ktd2692.c leds: ktd2692: Add missing of_node_put 2016-01-04 09:57:37 +01:00
leds-lm355x.c leds: lm355x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:36 +01:00
leds-lm3530.c
leds-lm3533.c leds: lm3533: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-lm3642.c leds: lm3642: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-locomo.c
leds-lp55xx-common.c leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp55xx-common.h leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp3944.c leds: lp3944: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp5521.c leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp5523.c leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp5562.c leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp8501.c leds: lp55xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp8788.c leds: lp8788: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lp8860.c leds: lp8860: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-lt3593.c leds: lt3593: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-max8997.c leds: max8997: Remove unneeded workqueue include 2016-01-04 09:57:35 +01:00
leds-max77693.c leds: max77693: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
leds-mc13783.c leds: mc13783: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:35 +01:00
leds-menf21bmc.c
leds-net48xx.c
leds-netxbig.c
leds-ns2.c
leds-ot200.c
leds-pca955x.c leds: pca955x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-pca963x.c leds: pca963x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-pca9532.c leds: pca9532: Remove work queue for LEDs. 2016-01-04 09:57:33 +01:00
leds-powernv.c powerpc/powernv: add missing of_node_put 2015-11-03 09:00:00 +01:00
leds-pwm.c leds: call led_pwm_set() in leds-pwm to enforce default LED_OFF 2016-01-04 09:57:36 +01:00
leds-rb532.c
leds-regulator.c leds: regulator: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:35 +01:00
leds-s3c24xx.c
leds-sead3.c
leds-ss4200.c
leds-sunfire.c
leds-syscon.c
leds-tca6507.c
leds-tlc591xx.c leds: tlc591xx: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:32 +01:00
leds-versatile.c
leds-wm831x-status.c leds: wm831x: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:34 +01:00
leds-wm8350.c leds: wm8350: Remove work queue 2016-01-04 09:57:35 +01:00
leds-wrap.c
leds.h leds: core: Drivers shouldn't enforce SYNC/ASYNC brightness setting 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
Makefile