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<title>linux.git/kernel/irq/manage.c, branch v5.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword</title>
<updated>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</published>
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Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Unlock irq descriptor after errors</title>
<updated>2020-08-13T07:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-11T18:00:12+00:00</published>
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In irq_set_irqchip_state(), the irq descriptor is not unlocked after an
error is encountered. While that should never happen in practice, a buggy
driver may trigger it. This would result in a lockup, so fix it.

Fixes: 1d0326f352bb ("genirq: Check irq_data_get_irq_chip() return value before use")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200811180012.80269-1-linux@roeck-us.net

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In irq_set_irqchip_state(), the irq descriptor is not unlocked after an
error is encountered. While that should never happen in practice, a buggy
driver may trigger it. This would result in a lockup, so fix it.

Fixes: 1d0326f352bb ("genirq: Check irq_data_get_irq_chip() return value before use")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200811180012.80269-1-linux@roeck-us.net

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-fifo-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T18:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T18:55:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6d2b84a4e5b954bd2587e06c29577256f59e0030'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull sched/fifo updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This adds the sched_set_fifo*() encapsulation APIs to remove static
  priority level knowledge from non-scheduler code.

  The three APIs for non-scheduler code to set SCHED_FIFO are:

   - sched_set_fifo()
   - sched_set_fifo_low()
   - sched_set_normal()

  These are two FIFO priority levels: default (high), and a 'low'
  priority level, plus sched_set_normal() to set the policy back to
  non-SCHED_FIFO.

  Since the changes affect a lot of non-scheduler code, we kept this in
  a separate tree"

* tag 'sched-fifo-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched,tracing: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched: Remove sched_set_*() return value
  sched: Remove sched_setscheduler*() EXPORTs
  sched,psi: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,rcutorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,rcuperf: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,locktorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,irq: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,watchdog: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,serial: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,powerclamp: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,ion: Convert to sched_set_normal()
  sched,powercap: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,spi: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,mmc: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,ivtv: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,drm/scheduler: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,msm: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,psci: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,drbd: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  ...
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Pull sched/fifo updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This adds the sched_set_fifo*() encapsulation APIs to remove static
  priority level knowledge from non-scheduler code.

  The three APIs for non-scheduler code to set SCHED_FIFO are:

   - sched_set_fifo()
   - sched_set_fifo_low()
   - sched_set_normal()

  These are two FIFO priority levels: default (high), and a 'low'
  priority level, plus sched_set_normal() to set the policy back to
  non-SCHED_FIFO.

  Since the changes affect a lot of non-scheduler code, we kept this in
  a separate tree"

* tag 'sched-fifo-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched,tracing: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched: Remove sched_set_*() return value
  sched: Remove sched_setscheduler*() EXPORTs
  sched,psi: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,rcutorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,rcuperf: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
  sched,locktorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,irq: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,watchdog: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,serial: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,powerclamp: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
  sched,ion: Convert to sched_set_normal()
  sched,powercap: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,spi: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,mmc: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,ivtv: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,drm/scheduler: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,msm: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,psci: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  sched,drbd: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/affinity: Make affinity setting if activated opt-in</title>
<updated>2020-07-27T14:20:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-24T20:44:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f0c7baca180046824e07fc5f1326e83a8fd150c7'/>
<id>f0c7baca180046824e07fc5f1326e83a8fd150c7</id>
<content type='text'>
John reported that on a RK3288 system the perf per CPU interrupts are all
affine to CPU0 and provided the analysis:

 "It looks like what happens is that because the interrupts are not per-CPU
  in the hardware, armpmu_request_irq() calls irq_force_affinity() while
  the interrupt is deactivated and then request_irq() with IRQF_PERCPU |
  IRQF_NOBALANCING.  

  Now when irq_startup() runs with IRQ_STARTUP_NORMAL, it calls
  irq_setup_affinity() which returns early because IRQF_PERCPU and
  IRQF_NOBALANCING are set, leaving the interrupt on its original CPU."

This was broken by the recent commit which blocked interrupt affinity
setting in hardware before activation of the interrupt. While this works in
general, it does not work for this particular case. As contrary to the
initial analysis not all interrupt chip drivers implement an activate
callback, the safe cure is to make the deferred interrupt affinity setting
at activation time opt-in.

Implement the necessary core logic and make the two irqchip implementations
for which this is required opt-in. In hindsight this would have been the
right thing to do, but ...

Fixes: baedb87d1b53 ("genirq/affinity: Handle affinity setting on inactive interrupts correctly")
Reported-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87blk4tzgm.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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John reported that on a RK3288 system the perf per CPU interrupts are all
affine to CPU0 and provided the analysis:

 "It looks like what happens is that because the interrupts are not per-CPU
  in the hardware, armpmu_request_irq() calls irq_force_affinity() while
  the interrupt is deactivated and then request_irq() with IRQF_PERCPU |
  IRQF_NOBALANCING.  

  Now when irq_startup() runs with IRQ_STARTUP_NORMAL, it calls
  irq_setup_affinity() which returns early because IRQF_PERCPU and
  IRQF_NOBALANCING are set, leaving the interrupt on its original CPU."

This was broken by the recent commit which blocked interrupt affinity
setting in hardware before activation of the interrupt. While this works in
general, it does not work for this particular case. As contrary to the
initial analysis not all interrupt chip drivers implement an activate
callback, the safe cure is to make the deferred interrupt affinity setting
at activation time opt-in.

Implement the necessary core logic and make the two irqchip implementations
for which this is required opt-in. In hindsight this would have been the
right thing to do, but ...

Fixes: baedb87d1b53 ("genirq/affinity: Handle affinity setting on inactive interrupts correctly")
Reported-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87blk4tzgm.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/affinity: Handle affinity setting on inactive interrupts correctly</title>
<updated>2020-07-17T21:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-17T16:00:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=baedb87d1b53532f81b4bd0387f83b05d4f7eb9a'/>
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<content type='text'>
Setting interrupt affinity on inactive interrupts is inconsistent when
hierarchical irq domains are enabled. The core code should just store the
affinity and not call into the irq chip driver for inactive interrupts
because the chip drivers may not be in a state to handle such requests.

X86 has a hacky workaround for that but all other irq chips have not which
causes problems e.g. on GIC V3 ITS.

Instead of adding more ugly hacks all over the place, solve the problem in
the core code. If the affinity is set on an inactive interrupt then:

    - Store it in the irq descriptors affinity mask
    - Update the effective affinity to reflect that so user space has
      a consistent view
    - Don't call into the irq chip driver

This is the core equivalent of the X86 workaround and works correctly
because the affinity setting is established in the irq chip when the
interrupt is activated later on.

Note, that this is only effective when hierarchical irq domains are enabled
by the architecture. Doing it unconditionally would break legacy irq chip
implementations.

For hierarchial irq domains this works correctly as none of the drivers can
have a dependency on affinity setting in inactive state by design.

Remove the X86 workaround as it is not longer required.

Fixes: 02edee152d6e ("x86/apic/vector: Ignore set_affinity call for inactive interrupts")
Reported-by: Ali Saidi &lt;alisaidi@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Ali Saidi &lt;alisaidi@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529015501.15771-1-alisaidi@amazon.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/877dv2rv25.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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Setting interrupt affinity on inactive interrupts is inconsistent when
hierarchical irq domains are enabled. The core code should just store the
affinity and not call into the irq chip driver for inactive interrupts
because the chip drivers may not be in a state to handle such requests.

X86 has a hacky workaround for that but all other irq chips have not which
causes problems e.g. on GIC V3 ITS.

Instead of adding more ugly hacks all over the place, solve the problem in
the core code. If the affinity is set on an inactive interrupt then:

    - Store it in the irq descriptors affinity mask
    - Update the effective affinity to reflect that so user space has
      a consistent view
    - Don't call into the irq chip driver

This is the core equivalent of the X86 workaround and works correctly
because the affinity setting is established in the irq chip when the
interrupt is activated later on.

Note, that this is only effective when hierarchical irq domains are enabled
by the architecture. Doing it unconditionally would break legacy irq chip
implementations.

For hierarchial irq domains this works correctly as none of the drivers can
have a dependency on affinity setting in inactive state by design.

Remove the X86 workaround as it is not longer required.

Fixes: 02edee152d6e ("x86/apic/vector: Ignore set_affinity call for inactive interrupts")
Reported-by: Ali Saidi &lt;alisaidi@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Ali Saidi &lt;alisaidi@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529015501.15771-1-alisaidi@amazon.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/877dv2rv25.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched,irq: Convert to sched_set_fifo()</title>
<updated>2020-06-15T12:10:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-21T10:09:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7a40798c714ff462863352d490b382515daba49e'/>
<id>7a40798c714ff462863352d490b382515daba49e</id>
<content type='text'>
Because SCHED_FIFO is a broken scheduler model (see previous patches)
take away the priority field, the kernel can't possibly make an
informed decision.

Effectively no change.

Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Because SCHED_FIFO is a broken scheduler model (see previous patches)
take away the priority field, the kernel can't possibly make an
informed decision.

Effectively no change.

Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Check irq_data_get_irq_chip() return value before use</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T13:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Vasut</name>
<email>marex@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-14T00:25:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1d0326f352bb094771df17f045bdbadff89a43e6'/>
<id>1d0326f352bb094771df17f045bdbadff89a43e6</id>
<content type='text'>
irq_data_get_irq_chip() can return NULL, however it is expected that this
never happens. If a buggy driver leads to NULL being returned from
irq_data_get_irq_chip(), warn about it instead of crashing the machine.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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irq_data_get_irq_chip() can return NULL, however it is expected that this
never happens. If a buggy driver leads to NULL being returned from
irq_data_get_irq_chip(), warn about it instead of crashing the machine.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq()</title>
<updated>2020-04-14T08:08:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>afzal mohammed</name>
<email>afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-27T16:11:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=07d8350ede4c4c29634b26c163a1eecdf39dfcfb'/>
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Now that all the users of setup_irq() &amp; remove_irq() have been replaced by
request_irq() &amp; free_irq() respectively, delete them.

Signed-off-by: afzal mohammed &lt;afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0aa8771ada1ac8e1312f6882980c9c08bd023148.1585320721.git.afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com

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<pre>
Now that all the users of setup_irq() &amp; remove_irq() have been replaced by
request_irq() &amp; free_irq() respectively, delete them.

Signed-off-by: afzal mohammed &lt;afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0aa8771ada1ac8e1312f6882980c9c08bd023148.1585320721.git.afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Fix reference leaks on irq affinity notifiers</title>
<updated>2020-03-21T16:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Cree</name>
<email>ecree@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-13T20:33:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df81dfcfd6991d547653d46c051bac195cd182c1'/>
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The handling of notify-&gt;work did not properly maintain notify-&gt;kref in two
 cases:
1) where the work was already scheduled, another irq_set_affinity_locked()
   would get the ref and (no-op-ly) schedule the work.  Thus when
   irq_affinity_notify() ran, it would drop the original ref but not the
   additional one.
2) when cancelling the (old) work in irq_set_affinity_notifier(), if there
   was outstanding work a ref had been got for it but was never put.
Fix both by checking the return values of the work handling functions
 (schedule_work() for (1) and cancel_work_sync() for (2)) and put the
 extra ref if the return value indicates preexisting work.

Fixes: cd7eab44e994 ("genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers")
Fixes: 59c39840f5ab ("genirq: Prevent use-after-free and work list corruption")
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24f5983f-2ab5-e83a-44ee-a45b5f9300f5@solarflare.com

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The handling of notify-&gt;work did not properly maintain notify-&gt;kref in two
 cases:
1) where the work was already scheduled, another irq_set_affinity_locked()
   would get the ref and (no-op-ly) schedule the work.  Thus when
   irq_affinity_notify() ran, it would drop the original ref but not the
   additional one.
2) when cancelling the (old) work in irq_set_affinity_notifier(), if there
   was outstanding work a ref had been got for it but was never put.
Fix both by checking the return values of the work handling functions
 (schedule_work() for (1) and cancel_work_sync() for (2)) and put the
 extra ref if the return value indicates preexisting work.

Fixes: cd7eab44e994 ("genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers")
Fixes: 59c39840f5ab ("genirq: Prevent use-after-free and work list corruption")
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24f5983f-2ab5-e83a-44ee-a45b5f9300f5@solarflare.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/proc: Reject invalid affinity masks (again)</title>
<updated>2020-02-14T08:43:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-12T11:19:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cba6437a1854fde5934098ec3bd0ee83af3129f5'/>
<id>cba6437a1854fde5934098ec3bd0ee83af3129f5</id>
<content type='text'>
Qian Cai reported that the WARN_ON() in the x86/msi affinity setting code,
which catches cases where the affinity setting is not done on the CPU which
is the current target of the interrupt, triggers during CPU hotplug stress
testing.

It turns out that the warning which was added with the commit addressing
the MSI affinity race unearthed yet another long standing bug.

If user space writes a bogus affinity mask, i.e. it contains no online CPUs,
then it calls irq_select_affinity_usr(). This was introduced for ALPHA in

  eee45269b0f5 ("[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (generic part)")

and subsequently made available for all architectures in

  18404756765c ("genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)")

which introduced the circumvention of the affinity setting restrictions for
interrupt which cannot be moved in process context.

The whole exercise is bogus in various aspects:

  1) If the interrupt is already started up then there is absolutely
     no point to honour a bogus interrupt affinity setting from user
     space. The interrupt is already assigned to an online CPU and it
     does not make any sense to reassign it to some other randomly
     chosen online CPU.

  2) If the interupt is not yet started up then there is no point
     either. A subsequent startup of the interrupt will invoke
     irq_setup_affinity() anyway which will chose a valid target CPU.

So the only correct solution is to just return -EINVAL in case user space
wrote an affinity mask which does not contain any online CPUs, except for
ALPHA which has it's own magic sauce for this.

Fixes: 18404756765c ("genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)")
Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/878sl8xdbm.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de


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Qian Cai reported that the WARN_ON() in the x86/msi affinity setting code,
which catches cases where the affinity setting is not done on the CPU which
is the current target of the interrupt, triggers during CPU hotplug stress
testing.

It turns out that the warning which was added with the commit addressing
the MSI affinity race unearthed yet another long standing bug.

If user space writes a bogus affinity mask, i.e. it contains no online CPUs,
then it calls irq_select_affinity_usr(). This was introduced for ALPHA in

  eee45269b0f5 ("[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (generic part)")

and subsequently made available for all architectures in

  18404756765c ("genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)")

which introduced the circumvention of the affinity setting restrictions for
interrupt which cannot be moved in process context.

The whole exercise is bogus in various aspects:

  1) If the interrupt is already started up then there is absolutely
     no point to honour a bogus interrupt affinity setting from user
     space. The interrupt is already assigned to an online CPU and it
     does not make any sense to reassign it to some other randomly
     chosen online CPU.

  2) If the interupt is not yet started up then there is no point
     either. A subsequent startup of the interrupt will invoke
     irq_setup_affinity() anyway which will chose a valid target CPU.

So the only correct solution is to just return -EINVAL in case user space
wrote an affinity mask which does not contain any online CPUs, except for
ALPHA which has it's own magic sauce for this.

Fixes: 18404756765c ("genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)")
Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/878sl8xdbm.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de


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