[PATCH] irqchip, gicv3: Fix out-of-range cpumask access reported by cpumask_check()

[mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 01:34:19PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> Booting a kernel with DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS enabled triggers the follwing
> warning:
> 
>  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at ./include/linux/cpumask.h:121 gic_raise_softirq+0x298/0x308

James posted a patch for this [1], which we were hoping Thomas would
pick up [2].

Does that patch work for you?

Thanks,
Mark.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-September/458087.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-September/458094.html

> Reason for this is the code in for_each_cpu() that modifies cpu in
> gic_compute_target_list() which may cause cpu set to nr_cpumask_bits
> and cpumask_check() (cpumask_next() of for_each_cpu()) throwing the
> warning.
> 
> Change the code to avoid out-of-range access that stops the warning.
> 
> Note: Though cpumask_check() fails, current for_each_cpu()
> implementation is save to use cpu out of range. Also, code in
> gic_raise_softirq() might be reworked at all in a way that a single
> each-cpu loop is used by squashing it with gic_compute_target_list().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index ede5672ab34d..ed46b906cf0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ static void gic_raise_softirq(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int irq)
>  
>  		tlist = gic_compute_target_list(&cpu, mask, cluster_id);
>  		gic_send_sgi(cluster_id, tlist, irq);
> +		if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
> +			break;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Force the above writes to ICC_SGI1R_EL1 to be executed */
> -- 
> 2.7.0.rc3
>