linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get

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Message-ID: <87mtkbvktb.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:48:00 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get_irq() and its ilk

On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:47:21 +0000,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:26 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org> wrote:
> > [Adding Geert]
> >
> > On Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:26:47 +0000,
> > Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru> wrote:
> > > The commit a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0 is
> > > invalid") only calls WARN() when IRQ0 is about to be returned, however
> > > using IRQ0 is considered invalid (according to Linus) outside the arch/
> > > code where it's used by the i8253 drivers. Many driver subsystems treat
> > > 0 specially (e.g. as an indication of the polling mode by libata), so
> > > the users of platform_get_irq[_byname]() in them would have to filter
> > > out IRQ0 explicitly and this (quite obviously) doesn't scale...
> > > Let's finally get this straight and return -EINVAL instead of IRQ0!
> > >
> > > Fixes: a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0 is invalid")
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
> 
> > > --- driver-core.orig/drivers/base/platform.c
> > > +++ driver-core/drivers/base/platform.c
> > > @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ int platform_get_irq_optional(struct pla
> > >  out_not_found:
> > >       ret = -ENXIO;
> > >  out:
> > > -     WARN(ret == 0, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n");
> > > +     if (WARN(!ret, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n"))
> > > +             return -EINVAL;
> > >       return ret;
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_get_irq_optional);
> > > @@ -445,7 +446,8 @@ static int __platform_get_irq_byname(str
> > >
> > >       r = platform_get_resource_byname(dev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, name);
> > >       if (r) {
> > > -             WARN(r->start == 0, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n");
> > > +             if (WARN(!r->start, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n"))
> > > +                     return -EINVAL;
> > >               return r->start;
> > >       }
> >
> > Geert recently mentioned that a few architectures (such as sh?) still
> > use IRQ0 as something valid in limited cases.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdUg3=q7gyaVHP0XcYUOo3PQUUv8Hc8wp5faVQ+bTBpg4A@mail.gmail.com
> 
> TL;DR: Probably only smsc911x Ethernet on the AP-SH4A-3A and
> AP-SH4AD-0A boards, which should trigger the warning since v5.8.
> 
> > From my PoV, this patch is fine, but please be prepared to fix things
> > in a couple of years when someone decides to boot a recent kernel on
> > their pet dinosaur. With that in mind:
> >
> > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> 
> TBH, I don't see much point in this patch, as the WARN() has been
> there since a while, and the end goal is to return zero instead of
> -ENXIO for no interrupt, right?

I think the end-goal is to never return 0. Either we return a valid
interrupt number, or we return an error. It should be the
responsibility of the caller to decide what they want to do in the
error case.

Thanks,

	M.

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