Re: Kernel panic with niu module

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On Wed, Nov 06 2024 at 10:04, dullfire@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 7d5ec3d36123 had the mask_all() invocation _before_ setting up the the
>> entries and reading back the descriptors. So that commit cannot break
>> the niu device when your problem analysis is correct.
>
> In 7d5ec3d36123 (and later) msix_mask_all() only writes to
> PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL. I have tried all the MSIX registers, and only 
> writes to PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA were able to prevent a fatal trap on a read.
> However the only write to PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA I see is in
> __pci_write_msi_msg() for 7d5ec3d36123, or pci_write_msg_msix(), in 6.11.5.

Yuck. They really went a great lenght to make this hard to handle.

Something like the obviously uncompiled below should work.

Thanks,

        tglx
---
--- a/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/msi/msi.c
@@ -611,6 +611,8 @@ void msix_prepare_msi_desc(struct pci_de
 	if (desc->pci.msi_attrib.can_mask) {
 		void __iomem *addr = pci_msix_desc_addr(desc);
 
+		if (dev->dev_flags & PCI_MSIX_TOUCH_ENTRY_DATA_FIRST)
+			writel(0x0, addr + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_DATA);
 		desc->pci.msix_ctrl = readl(addr + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL);
 	}
 }





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