[obsolete] kexec-prevent-redundant-irq-masking-by-checking-state-before-shutdown.patch removed from -mm tree

[obsolete] kexec-prevent-redundant-irq-masking-by-checking-state-before-shutdown.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: kexec: prevent redundant IRQ masking by checking state before shutdown
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kexec-prevent-redundant-irq-masking-by-checking-state-before-shutdown.patch

This patch was dropped because it is obsolete

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From: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com>
Subject: kexec: prevent redundant IRQ masking by checking state before shutdown
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:20:03 +0000

During machine kexec, the function machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() is
responsible for disabling or masking all interrupts.  While the
irq_disable hook ensures that an already-disabled IRQ is not disabled
again, the current implementation unconditionally invokes the irq_mask()
function for every interrupt descriptor, even when the interrupt is
already masked.

A specific issue was observed in the crash kernel flow after unbinding a
device (prior to kexec) that used a GPIO as an IRQ source.  The warning
was triggered by the gpiochip_disable_irq() function, which attempted to
clear the FLAG_IRQ_IS_ENABLED flag when FLAG_USED_AS_IRQ was not set:

```
void gpiochip_disable_irq(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int offset)
{
	struct gpio_desc *desc = gpiochip_get_desc(gc, offset);

	if (!IS_ERR(desc) &&
	    !WARN_ON(!test_bit(FLAG_USED_AS_IRQ, &desc->flags)))
		clear_bit(FLAG_IRQ_IS_ENABLED, &desc->flags);
}
```

This issue surfaced after commit a8173820f441 ("gpio: gpiolib: Allow GPIO
IRQs to lazy disable") introduced lazy disablement for GPIO IRQs.  It
replaced disable/enable hooks with mask/unmask hooks.  Unlike the disable
hook, the mask hook doesn't handle already-masked IRQs.

When a GPIO-IRQ driver is unbound, the IRQ is released, triggering
__irq_disable() and irq_state_set_masked().  A subsequent call to
machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() re-invokes chip->irq_mask().  This results
in a call chain, including gpiochip_irq_mask() and gpiochip_disable_irq().
Since FLAG_USED_AS_IRQ was cleared earlier, a warning occurs.

Replace calls to irq_mask() and irq_disable() hooks with a simplified call
to irq_shutdown(), and check if the interrupt is started (irqd_is_started)
before calling the shutdown.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204142003.32859-3-farbere@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com>
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Chocron <jonnyc@amazon.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Ryo Takakura <takakura@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Song Shuai <songshuaishuai@tinylab.org>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/irq/kexec.c |    8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/irq/kexec.c~kexec-prevent-redundant-irq-masking-by-checking-state-before-shutdown
+++ a/kernel/irq/kexec.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void)
 		int check_eoi = 1;
 
 		chip = irq_desc_get_chip(desc);
-		if (!chip)
+		if (!chip || !irqd_is_started(&desc->irq_data))
 			continue;
 
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_KEXEC_CLEAR_VM_FORWARD)) {
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void)
 		if (check_eoi && chip->irq_eoi && irqd_irq_inprogress(&desc->irq_data))
 			chip->irq_eoi(&desc->irq_data);
 
-		if (chip->irq_mask)
-			chip->irq_mask(&desc->irq_data);
-
-		if (chip->irq_disable && !irqd_irq_disabled(&desc->irq_data))
-			chip->irq_disable(&desc->irq_data);
+		irq_shutdown(desc);
 	}
 }
_

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