Re: [PATCH] IRQ : bug fix in setup_irq

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 18:19:57 EST


On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, sasa sasa wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> index 1f31422..ca92f97 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ int setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *new)
> desc->status |= IRQ_NO_BALANCING;
>
> if (!shared) {
> + int trigger_type = 0;

No need to initialize to zero.

> irq_chip_set_defaults(desc->chip);
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_PER_CPU)
> @@ -346,11 +347,22 @@ int setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *new)
> desc->status |= IRQ_PER_CPU;
> #endif
>
> + trigger_type = new->flags & IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK;
> +
> /* Setup the type (level, edge polarity) if configured: */
> - if (new->flags & IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK) {
> - if (desc->chip && desc->chip->set_type)
> - desc->chip->set_type(irq,
> - new->flags & IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK);
> + if (trigger_type) {
> + if (desc->chip && desc->chip->set_type) {
> + if ((desc->chip->set_type(irq, trigger_type))) {
> + /* Action handler gets freed but
> + * desc->action also needs to be
> + * set to NULL
> + */

That's not desc->action. That's the end of the desc->action list

> + *p = NULL;

Can we have a printk here, which tells us what went wrong ?

> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock,
> + flags);
> + return -EBUSY;

Please use the already existing error exit via "goto ..." instead

> + }
> + }
> else
> /*
> * IRQF_TRIGGER_* but the PIC does not support
> @@ -571,8 +583,10 @@ int request_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
> #endif
>
> retval = setup_irq(irq, action);
> - if (retval)
> + if (retval) {
> + printk(KERN_WARNING"Failed to allocate interrupt %d\n", retval);
> kfree(action);

We dont want to know that the setup function returned -EBUSY. We
rather want to have a printk in the path above.

Thanks,
tglx
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