When the mmc_rescan work is enabled for execution (host->rescan_disable),
it's the only instance per mmc host that is allowed to set/clear the
host->bus_ops pointer.
Besides the mmc_rescan work, there are a couple of scenarios when the
host->bus_ops pointer may be accessed. Typically, those can be described as
as below:
*)
Upper mmc driver layers (like the mmc block device driver or an SDIO
functional driver) needs to execute a host->bus_ops callback. This can be
considered as safe without having to use some special locking mechanism,
because they operate on top of the struct mmc_card. As long as there is a
card to operate upon, the mmc core guarantees that there is a host->bus_ops
assigned as well. Note that, upper layer mmc drivers are of course
responsible to clean up from themselves from their ->remove() callbacks,
otherwise things would fall apart anyways.
**)
Via the mmc host instance, we may need to force a removal of an inserted
mmc card. This happens when a mmc host driver gets unbind, for example. In
this case, we protect the host->bus_ops pointer from concurrent accesses,
by disabling the mmc_rescan work upfront (host->rescan_disable). See
mmc_stop_host() for example.
This said, it seems like the reference counting of the host->bus_ops
pointer at some point have become superfluous. As this is an old mechanism
of the mmc core, it a bit difficult to digest the history of when that
could have happened. However, let's drop the reference counting to avoid
unnecessary code-paths and lockings.
Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212131610.236843-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org
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