efb8235bfd
This reverts commits 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device
mutex with a read-write semaphore") and 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use
a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices").
Unfortunately the legacy GPIO API that's still used in older code has to
translate numbers from the global GPIO numberspace to descriptors. This
results in a GPIO device lookup in every call to legacy functions. Some
of those functions - like gpio_set/get_value() - can be called from
atomic context so taking a sleeping lock that is an RW semaphore results
in an error.
We'll probably have to protect this list with SRCU.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/f7b5ff1e-8f34-4d98-a7be-b826cb897dc8@moroto.mountain/
Fixes: 1979a2807547 ("gpiolib: replace the GPIO device mutex with a read-write semaphore")
Fixes: 65a828bab158 ("gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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