iio: Add reference counting for buffers

Since the buffer is accessed by userspace we can not just free the buffers
memory once we are done with it in kernel space. There might still be open file
descriptors and userspace still might be accessing the buffer. This patch adds
support for reference counting to the IIO buffers. When a buffer is created and
initialized its initial reference count is set to 1. Instead of freeing the
memory of the buffer the buffer's _free() function will drop that reference
again. But only after the last reference to the buffer has been dropped the
buffer the buffer's memory will be freed. The IIO device will take a reference
to its primary buffer. The patch adds a small helper function for this called
iio_device_attach_buffer() which will get a reference to the buffer and assign
the buffer to the IIO device. This function must be used instead of assigning
the buffer to the device by hand. The reference is only dropped once the IIO
device is freed and we can be sure that there are no more open file handles. A
reference to a buffer will also be taken whenever the buffer is active to avoid
the buffer being freed while data is still being send to it.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c b/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
index 538d4616e48f..b4ac55a29fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/kfifo_buf.c
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ static int iio_read_first_n_kfifo(struct iio_buffer *r,
 	return copied;
 }
 
+static void iio_kfifo_buffer_release(struct iio_buffer *buffer)
+{
+	kfree(iio_to_kfifo(buffer));
+}
+
 static const struct iio_buffer_access_funcs kfifo_access_funcs = {
 	.store_to = &iio_store_to_kfifo,
 	.read_first_n = &iio_read_first_n_kfifo,
@@ -138,6 +143,7 @@ static const struct iio_buffer_access_funcs kfifo_access_funcs = {
 	.set_bytes_per_datum = &iio_set_bytes_per_datum_kfifo,
 	.get_length = &iio_get_length_kfifo,
 	.set_length = &iio_set_length_kfifo,
+	.release = &iio_kfifo_buffer_release,
 };
 
 struct iio_buffer *iio_kfifo_allocate(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
@@ -158,7 +164,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iio_kfifo_allocate);
 
 void iio_kfifo_free(struct iio_buffer *r)
 {
-	kfree(iio_to_kfifo(r));
+	iio_buffer_put(r);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iio_kfifo_free);