Re: [PATCH v4] irqchip/renesas-irqc: fix generic interrupt chip leak on remove

Hi Qingshuang,

On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 11:39, Qingshuang Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Qingshuang Fu <[email protected]>
>
> The driver allocates domain generic chips using
> irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips() during probe. However, on driver
> remove, the generic chips are not automatically freed when the interrupt
> domain is removed because the domain flags do not include
> IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAG_DESTROY_GC.
>
> This causes both the domain generic chips structure and the associated
> generic chips to be leaked. Additionally, the generic chips remain on
> the global gc_list and may later be visited by generic interrupt chip
> suspend, resume, or shutdown callbacks after the driver has been removed,
> potentially resulting in a use-after-free and kernel crash.
>
> Fix the resource leak by setting IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAG_DESTROY_GC on the
> interrupt domain; this lets the interrupt domain core automatically
> release all generic chips when irq_domain_remove() is called, removing
> the need for manual cleanup calls in error paths and remove callback.
>
> Fixes: 99c221df33fbfa1b ("irqchip/renesas-irqc: Move over to nested generic chip")

Thanks for the update!
No changelog?

> Signed-off-by: Qingshuang Fu <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Please do not retain Rb-tags when completely changing a patch.

> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-irqc.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-irqc.c
> @@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ static int irqc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         p->gc->chip_types[0].chip.irq_set_wake  = irqc_irq_set_wake;
>         p->gc->chip_types[0].chip.flags = IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND;
>
> +       /* Automatically free generic chips when interrupt domain is destroyed */

I am not sure you need the comment.

> +       p->irq_domain->flags |= IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAG_DESTROY_GC;
> +

LGTM, but you may want to do this right after creating p->irq_domain,
like is done in pdc_intc_probe().

>         irq_domain_set_pm_device(p->irq_domain, dev);
>
>         /* request interrupts one by one */
>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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