Re: [Bug 202453] TRACE irq/18-i801_smb Tainted when enabled threadirqs in kernel commandline.

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 05:19:18PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04 2020 at 21:19, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:04:00PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>    2) Have a wrapper around handle_generic_irq() which ensures that
> >>       interrupts are disabled before invoking it.
> 
> > The question is whether it's guaranteed under all circumstances
> > including forced irq threading. The i801 driver has assumptions about
> > this, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are more.
> 
> Assuming that a final answer might take some time, the below which
> implements #2 will make it at least work for now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx
> ---
> Subject: genirq, i2c: Provide and use generic_dispatch_irq()
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:12:24 +0100
> 
> Carlos reported that on his system booting with 'threadirqs' on the command
> line result in the following warning:
> 
> irq 31 handler irq_default_primary_handler+0x0/0x10 enabled interrupts
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 989 at kernel/irq/handle.c:153 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x19f/0x1b0
> 
> The reason is in the i2c stack:
> 
>     i801_isr()
>       i801_host_notify_isr()
>         i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify()
>           generic_handle_irq()
> 
> and that explodes with forced interrupt threading because it's called with
> interrupts enabled.
> 
> It would be possible to set IRQF_NO_THREAD on the i801 interrupt to exclude
> it from force threading, but that would break on RT and require a larger
> update.
> 
> It's also unclear whether there are other drivers which can reach that code
> path via i2c_slave_host_notify_cb(). As there are enough i2c drivers which
> use threaded interrupt handlers by default it seems not completely
> impossible that this can happen even without force threaded interrupts.
> 
> For a quick fix provide a wrapper around generic_handle_irq() which has a
> local_irq_save/restore() around the invocation and use it in the i2c code.
> 
> Reported-by: Carlos Jimenez <javashin1986@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202453
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c |    2 +-
>  include/linux/irqdesc.h     |    1 +
>  kernel/irq/irqdesc.c        |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> @@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ int i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify(struct
>  	if (irq <= 0)
>  		return -ENXIO;
>  
> -	generic_handle_irq(irq);
> +	generic_dispatch_irq(irq);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> --- a/include/linux/irqdesc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/irqdesc.h
> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static inline void generic_handle_irq_de
>  }
>  
>  int generic_handle_irq(unsigned int irq);
> +int generic_dispatch_irq(unsigned int irq);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
>  /*
> --- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
> @@ -652,6 +652,26 @@ int generic_handle_irq(unsigned int irq)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_handle_irq);
>  
> +/**
> + * generic_dispatch_irq - Dispatch an interrupt from an interrupt handler
> + * @irq:	The irq number to handle
> + *
> + * A wrapper around generic_handle_irq() which ensures that interrupts are
> + * disabled when the primary handler of the dispatched irq is invoked.
> + * This is useful for interrupt handlers with dispatching to be safe for
> + * the forced threaded case.
> + */
> +int generic_dispatch_irq(unsigned int irq)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	local_irq_save(&flags);
> +	ret = generic_handle_irq(irq);
> +	local_irq_restore(&flags);

FWIW, for me &flags explodes build on v5.10-rc6. I had to change it to local_irq_save/restore(flags) (without taking an address via &).

> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
>  /**
>   * __handle_domain_irq - Invoke the handler for a HW irq belonging to a domain

-- 
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)