linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci: Don't signal the sdio irq if it's not setup

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:45:16 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, Chris Ball <chris@...ntf.net>,
	linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci: Don't signal the sdio irq if it's not setup

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:07:09PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> With 3.14.29 (and older kernels) some of my I.mx6 Sabrelite boards were
> crashing with the following oops:
> 
>   sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
>   sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
>   sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
>   sdhci-esdhc-imx 2198000.usdhc: could not get ultra high speed state, work on normal mode
>   mmc0: no vqmmc regulator found
>   mmc0: SDHCI controller on 2198000.usdhc [2198000.usdhc] using ADMA
>   Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
>   pgd = c0004000
>   [00000000] *pgd=00000000
>   Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
>   Modules linked in:
>   CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.29 #1
>   task: c08a7120 ti: c089c000 task.ti: c089c000
>   PC is at wake_up_process+0x8/0x40
>   LR is at sdhci_irq+0x748/0x9c4
> 
> Full boot log can be found at:
>   http://storage.kernelci.org/stable/v3.14.29/arm-multi_v7_defconfig/lab-collabora/boot-imx6q-sabrelite.html
> 
> This happens if the sdhci interrupt status contains SDHCI_INT_CARD_INT,
> while the sdio irq was never setup.  This patch fixes that in a minimal
> way by checking if the sdio irq was setup.
> 
> In more recent kernels this bug went away due to refactoring done by
> Russel King. So an alternative (potentially better?) fix for this patch
> is to cherrypick the following patches from a recent kernel:
> 
> 18258f7239a6 - genirq: Provide synchronize_hardirq()
> bf3b5ec66bd0 - mmc: sdio_irq: rework sdio irq handling
> 41005003bcaf - mmc: sdhci: clean up interrupt handling
> 781e989cf593 - mmc: sdhci: convert to new SDIO IRQ handling
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I don't understand, either take 4 patches, or this single-line patches?

And what kernel version(s) do you want this applied to?

confused,

greg k-h
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