linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, uv: Fix uv with destroy

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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:22:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, uv: Fix uv with destroy_irq()

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> 
> Russ found that:
> 
> | There is a regression that is causing a NULL pointer dereference
> | in free_irte when shutting down xpc.  git bisect narrowed it down
> | to git commit d585d060b42bd36f6f0b23ff327d3b91f80c7139, which
> | changed free_irte().  Reverse applying the patch fixes the problem.
> 
> and he bisected to
> 
> | commit d585d060b42bd36f6f0b23ff327d3b91f80c7139
> | Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> |Date:   Sun Oct 10 12:34:27 2010 +0200
> |
> |   intr_remap: Simplify the code further
> |
> |   Having irq_2_iommu in struct irq_cfg allows further simplifications.
> 
> We need to use irq_mapped() for every irq instead of intr_remapping_enabled
> overall
> 
> Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
> Bisected-by: Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
> Tested-by: Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> @@ -3109,7 +3109,7 @@ void destroy_irq(unsigned int irq)
>  
>  	irq_set_status_flags(irq, IRQ_NOREQUEST|IRQ_NOPROBE);
>  
> -	if (intr_remapping_enabled)
> +	if (irq_remapped(get_irq_chip_data(irq)))

No need for get_irq_chip_data(). We have cfg already. Will fix.

Thanks,

	tglx

>  		free_irte(irq);
>  	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&vector_lock, flags);
>  	__clear_irq_vector(irq, cfg);
> 
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