On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:49:08PM +0100, Remi Pommarel wrote:
> Because the irq was requested through device managed resources API
> (devm_request_threaded_irq()) it was freed after meson_mmc_remove()
> completion, thus after mmc_free_host() has reclaimed meson_host memory.
> As this irq is IRQF_SHARED, while using CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ, its handler
> get called by free_irq(). So meson_mmc_irq() was called after the
> meson_host memory reclamation and was using invalid memory.
> 
> We ended up with the following scenario:
> device_release_driver()
>       meson_mmc_remove()
>               mmc_free_host() /* Freeing host memory */
>       ...
>       devres_release_all()
>               devm_irq_release()
>                       __free_irq()
>                               meson_mmc_irq() /* Uses freed memory */
> 
> To avoid this, the irq is released in meson_mmc_remove() before
> mmc_free_host() gets called.
> 

Oups, I missed the fact that the same can happen if probe() callback
fails after allocating the irq.

I will send a V2 for that.

-- 
Remi

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