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Ensure we cannot crash if the GPIO device gets unregistered (and the chip pointer set to NULL) during any of the API calls. To that end: wait for all users of gdev->chip to exit their read-only SRCU critical sections in gpiochip_remove(). For brevity: add a guard class which can be instantiated at the top of every function requiring read-only access to the chip pointer and use it in all API calls taking a GPIO descriptor as argument. In places where we only deal with the GPIO device - use regular guard() helpers and rcu_dereference() for chip access. Do the same in API calls taking a const pointer to gpio_desc. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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