Prior to commit e6c9a037bc8a ("i2c: xiic: Remove the disabling of interrupts") IRQs where disabled when the initial __xiic_start_xfer() was called. After the commit the interrupt is enabled while the function is running, this means it is possible for the interrupt to be triggered while the function is still running. When this happens the internal data structures get corrupted and undefined behavior can occur like the following crash: Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 2040 Comm: i2cdetect Not tainted 4.0.0-02856-g047a308 #10956 Hardware name: Xilinx Zynq Platform task: ee0c9500 ti: e99a2000 task.ti: e99a2000 PC is at __xiic_start_xfer+0x6c4/0x7c8 LR is at __xiic_start_xfer+0x690/0x7c8 pc : [<c02bbffc>] lr : [<c02bbfc8>] psr: 800f0013 sp : e99a3da8 ip : 00000000 fp : 00000000 r10: 00000001 r9 : 600f0013 r8 : f0180000 r7 : f0180000 r6 : c064e444 r5 : 00000017 r4 : ee031010 r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 600f0013 r0 : 0000000f Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user Control: 18c5387d Table: 29a5404a DAC: 00000015 Process i2cdetect (pid: 2040, stack limit = 0xe99a2210) Stack: (0xe99a3da8 to 0xe99a4000) 3da0: ee031010 00000000 00000001 ee031020 ee031224 c02bc5ec 3dc0: ee34c604 00000000 ee0c9500 e99a3dcc e99a3dd0 e99a3dd0 e99a3dd8 c069f0e8 3de0: 00000000 ee031020 c064e100 ffff90bb e99a3e48 c02b6590 ee031020 00000001 3e00: e99a3e48 ee031020 00000000 e99a3e63 00000001 c02b6ec4 00000000 00000000 3e20: 00000000 c02b7320 e99a3ef0 00000000 00000000 e99e3df0 00000000 00000000 3e40: 00000103 2814575f 0000003e c00a0000 e99a3e85 0001003e ee0c0000 e99a3e63 3e60: eefd3578 c064e61c ee0c9500 c0041e04 0000056c e9a56db8 00006e5a b6f5c000 3e80: ee0c9548 eefd0040 00000001 eefd3540 ee0c9500 eefd39a0 c064b540 ee0c9500 3ea0: 00000000 ee92b000 00000000 bef4862c ee34c600 e99ecdc0 00000720 00000003 3ec0: e99a2000 00000000 00000000 c02b8b30 00000000 00000000 00000000 e99a3f24 3ee0: b6e80000 00000000 00000000 c04257e8 00000000 e99a3f24 c02b8f08 00000703 3f00: 00000003 c02116bc ee935300 00000000 bef4862c ee34c600 e99ecdc0 c02b91f0 3f20: e99ecdc0 00000720 bef4862c eeb725f8 e99ecdc0 c00c9e2c 00000003 00000003 3f40: ee248dc0 00000000 ee248dc8 00000002 eeb7c1a8 00000000 00000000 c00bb360 3f60: 00000000 00000000 00000003 ee248dc0 bef4862c e99ecdc0 e99ecdc0 00000720 3f80: 00000003 e99a2000 00000000 c00c9f68 00000000 00000000 b6f22000 00000036 3fa0: c000dfa4 c000de20 00000000 00000000 00000003 00000720 bef4862c bef4862c 3fc0: 00000000 00000000 b6f22000 00000036 00000000 00000000 b6f60000 00000000 3fe0: 00013040 bef48614 00008cab b6ecdbe6 400f0030 00000003 2f7fd821 2f7fdc21 [<c02bbffc>] (__xiic_start_xfer) from [<c02bc5ec>] (xiic_xfer+0x94/0x168) [<c02bc5ec>] (xiic_xfer) from [<c02b6590>] (__i2c_transfer+0x4c/0x7c) [<c02b6590>] (__i2c_transfer) from [<c02b6ec4>] (i2c_transfer+0x9c/0xc4) [<c02b6ec4>] (i2c_transfer) from [<c02b7320>] (i2c_smbus_xfer+0x3a0/0x4ec) [<c02b7320>] (i2c_smbus_xfer) from [<c02b8b30>] (i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0xb0/0x214) [<c02b8b30>] (i2cdev_ioctl_smbus) from [<c02b91f0>] (i2cdev_ioctl+0xa0/0x1d4) [<c02b91f0>] (i2cdev_ioctl) from [<c00c9e2c>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x4b0/0x5b8) [<c00c9e2c>] (do_vfs_ioctl) from [<c00c9f68>] (SyS_ioctl+0x34/0x5c) [<c00c9f68>] (SyS_ioctl) from [<c000de20>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x34) Code: e283300c e5843210 eafffe64 e5943210 (e1d320b4) The issue can easily be reproduced by performing I2C access under high system load or IO load. To fix the issue protect the invocation to __xiic_start_xfer() form xiic_start_xfer() with the same lock that is used to protect the interrupt handler. Fixes: e6c9a037bc8a ("i2c: xiic: Remove the disabling of interrupts") Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c index 705cf69..0b20449 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c @@ -664,9 +664,8 @@ static void xiic_start_xfer(struct xiic_i2c *i2c) { spin_lock(&i2c->lock); xiic_reinit(i2c); - spin_unlock(&i2c->lock); - __xiic_start_xfer(i2c); + spin_unlock(&i2c->lock); } static int xiic_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msgs, int num) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html