From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: check for valid irq_cfg pointer in smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:41:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120522024101.GA30298@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337634639.1997.148.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com>
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:10:39PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:09 -0500, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:05:53PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 11:49 -0500, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> > > > The smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt routine should be checking for a valid
> > > > irq_cfg pointer prior to accessing it. It also seems that this should be
> > > > done after taking the desc lock.
> > >
> > > I think these changes are correct. Did you see any crashes during module
> > > unload etc?
> >
> > Yes, we have seen these on occasion during boot.
>
> During boot or shutdown?
>
Early on in boot, on rare occasions.
Easiest to reproduce doing module repeated module loads/unloads.
> Review of the code shows that this can trigger during module unload
> which can call destroy_irq() etc and can trigger the crash if there is a
> parallel irq migration related cleanup.
>
> Unsuccessful module loads can also call destroy_irq() but I doubt that
> is what happening here.
>
> thanks,
> suresh
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-22 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 16:49 [PATCH] x86: check for valid irq_cfg pointer in smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-21 21:09 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-21 21:10 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-22 2:41 ` Dimitri Sivanich [this message]
2012-05-21 21:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-21 21:19 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-21 21:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-23 18:16 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-23 19:04 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-23 19:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-23 19:24 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-23 20:02 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-23 23:49 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-24 1:40 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-24 14:37 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-24 18:19 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-24 19:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-26 0:23 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-05-26 10:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-27 1:41 ` Jiang Liu
2012-05-30 13:46 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2012-05-24 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-05-24 15:36 ` Dimitri Sivanich
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2012-10-16 12:50 Dimitri Sivanich
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