Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: Survive spurious interrupts

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Oct 07 2020 - 08:09:38 EST


On 2020-10-07 13:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:49 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 4:02 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The pca953x driver never checks the result of irq_find_mapping(),
> which returns 0 when no mapping is found. When a spurious interrupt
> is delivered (which can happen under obscure circumstances), the
> kernel explodes as it still tries to handle the error code as
> a real interrupt.
>
> Handle this particular case and warn on spurious interrupts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wait, doesn't actually [1] fix the reported issue?

Not at all.

Marc, can you confirm this?

[1]: e43c26e12dd4 ("gpio: pca953x: Fix uninitialized pending variable")

Different bug, really. If an interrupt is *really* pending, and no
mapping established yet, feeding the result of irq_find_mapping() to
handle_nested_irq() will lead to a panic.

Recently seen on a Tegra system suffering from even more pathological bugs.

M.
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