linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] vfio/pci: Disable auto-enable of exclusive INTx IRQ

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:23:48 -0700
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc: "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, "eric.auger@...hat.com"
 <eric.auger@...hat.com>, "clg@...hat.com" <clg@...hat.com>, "Chatre,
 Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] vfio/pci: Disable auto-enable of exclusive INTx IRQ

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 08:39:16 +0000
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com> wrote:

> > From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:15 AM
> > 
> > Currently for devices requiring masking at the irqchip for INTx, ie.
> > devices without DisINTx support, the IRQ is enabled in request_irq()
> > and subsequently disabled as necessary to align with the masked status
> > flag.  This presents a window where the interrupt could fire between
> > these events, resulting in the IRQ incrementing the disable depth twice.
> > This would be unrecoverable for a user since the masked flag prevents
> > nested enables through vfio.
> > 
> > Instead, invert the logic using IRQF_NO_AUTOEN such that exclusive INTx
> > is never auto-enabled, then unmask as required.
> > 
> > Fixes: 89e1f7d4c66d ("vfio: Add PCI device driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>  
> 
> CC stable?

I've always found that having a Fixes: tag is sufficient to get picked
up for stable, so I typically don't do both.  If it helps out someone's
process I'd be happy to though.  Thanks,

Alex