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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 875b40376c0b..82811d9a4477 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(desc_to_gpio); /** * gpiod_to_chip - Return the GPIO chip to which a GPIO descriptor belongs * @desc: descriptor to return the chip of + * + * *DEPRECATED* + * This function is unsafe and should not be used. Using the chip address + * without taking the SRCU read lock may result in dereferencing a dangling + * pointer. */ struct gpio_chip *gpiod_to_chip(const struct gpio_desc *desc) { @@ -275,6 +280,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(gpio_device_get_label); * Returns: * Address of the GPIO chip backing this device. * + * *DEPRECATED* * Until we can get rid of all non-driver users of struct gpio_chip, we must * provide a way of retrieving the pointer to it from struct gpio_device. This * is *NOT* safe as the GPIO API is considered to be hot-unpluggable and the |