[PATCH v25] dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: free interrupt before the clock in error path

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 04:52:12 EST


The BAM interrupt is requested with a devres helper and so on error it's
freed after probe() returns. We disable the clock before freeing or
masking it so it may still fire and we may end up reading BAM registers
with clock disabled.

Stop using devres for interrupts as we free it in remove() manually
anyway. Add an appropriate label and free the interrupt before disabling
the clock in error path and in remove().

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: e7c0fe2a5c84 ("dmaengine: add Qualcomm BAM dma driver")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260427-qcom-qce-cmd-descr-v16-0-945fd1cafbbc%40oss.qualcomm.com?part=2
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This used to be part of the larger BAM DMA pipe locking series and never
got picked up despite months on the list. I'm resending it separately.
---
Changes in v25:
- Don't touch remove(), it's not wrong in its current version
- Link to v24: https://patch.msgid.link/20260723-qcom-qce-cmd-descr-v24-0-4f87bb4d9938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/dma/qcom/bam_dma.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/qcom/bam_dma.c b/drivers/dma/qcom/bam_dma.c
index 05a3b1f9e0c23dc5f861488fae03494867970523..a626746b5c93496e5c5e885b35a856d38c284448 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/qcom/bam_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/qcom/bam_dma.c
@@ -1332,8 +1332,8 @@ static int bam_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
for (i = 0; i < bdev->num_channels; i++)
bam_channel_init(bdev, &bdev->channels[i], i);

- ret = devm_request_irq(bdev->dev, bdev->irq, bam_dma_irq,
- IRQF_TRIGGER_HIGH, "bam_dma", bdev);
+ ret = request_irq(bdev->irq, bam_dma_irq, IRQF_TRIGGER_HIGH,
+ "bam_dma", bdev);
if (ret)
goto err_bam_channel_exit;

@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ static int bam_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
ret = dma_async_device_register(&bdev->common);
if (ret) {
dev_err(bdev->dev, "failed to register dma async device\n");
- goto err_bam_channel_exit;
+ goto err_free_irq;
}

ret = of_dma_controller_register(pdev->dev.of_node, bam_dma_xlate,
@@ -1385,6 +1385,8 @@ static int bam_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

err_unregister_dma:
dma_async_device_unregister(&bdev->common);
+err_free_irq:
+ free_irq(bdev->irq, bdev);
err_bam_channel_exit:
for (i = 0; i < bdev->num_channels; i++)
tasklet_kill(&bdev->channels[i].vc.task);
@@ -1410,7 +1412,7 @@ static void bam_dma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* mask all interrupts for this execution environment */
writel_relaxed(0, bam_addr(bdev, 0, BAM_IRQ_SRCS_MSK_EE));

- devm_free_irq(bdev->dev, bdev->irq, bdev);
+ free_irq(bdev->irq, bdev);

for (i = 0; i < bdev->num_channels; i++) {
bam_dma_terminate_all(&bdev->channels[i].vc.chan);

---
base-commit: 9f24d789f03b22941b905ded43cb5ff8eea9ce62
change-id: 20261002-bam-dma-free-irq-cac4b268c465

Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>