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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.vger.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/atmel-aic: Fix potential deadlock in ->xlate()
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:28:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57D7D4C1.6080007@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473761409-16226-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>

On 13/09/16 11:10, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> aic5_irq_domain_xlate() and aic_irq_domain_xlate() take the generic chip
> lock without disabling interrupts, which can lead to a deadlock if an
> interrupt occurs while the lock is held in one of these functions.
> 
> Replace irq_gc_{lock,unlock}() calls by
> raw_spin_{lock_irqsave,unlock_irqrestore}() ones to prevent this bug from
> happening.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> Fixes: b1479ebb7720 ("irqchip: atmel-aic: Add atmel AIC/AIC5 drivers")
> Cc: <stable@kernel.vger.org>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-atmel-aic.c  | 5 +++--
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-atmel-aic5.c | 5 +++--
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Thomas, any chance you could queue this one as a fix for 4.8-rc7?

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-13 10:10 [PATCH] irqchip/atmel-aic: Fix potential deadlock in ->xlate() Boris Brezillon
2016-09-13 10:12 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-09-13 10:28 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-09-13 11:23 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-09-13 12:21   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-09-13 12:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-09-13 13:00   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-09-13 13:13     ` Thomas Gleixner

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