netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix races between lock and irq freeing

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Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 22:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix races between lock and irq
 freeing

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:53:15 +0200

> free_irq() waits until all handlers for this IRQ have completed. As the
> relevant handler (mv88e6xxx_g1_irq_thread_fn()) takes the chip's reg_lock
> it might never return if the thread calling free_irq() holds this lock.
> 
> For the same reason kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() in the polling case
> must not hold this lock.
> 
> Also first free the irq (or stop the worker respectively) such that
> mv88e6xxx_g1_irq_thread_work() isn't called any more before the irq
> mappings are dropped in mv88e6xxx_g1_irq_free_common() to prevent the
> worker thread to call handle_nested_irq(0) which results in a NULL-pointer
> exception.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Looks good.

Note than the IRQ domain unmapping will do a synchronize_irq() which
should cause the same deadlock as free_irq() will with the reg_lock
held.

Note also that g2 IRQ freeing gets the ordering right, and doesn't need
a lock because it doesn't program any registers when tearing down it's
IRQ.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.