Re: Patch "platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get_irq() and its ilk" has been added to the 5.18-stable tree

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 08:05:46PM +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 6/9/22 4:42 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get_irq() and its ilk
> > 
> > to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      platform-finally-disallow-irq0-in-platform_get_irq-a.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > commit dabc818457ed941db86f911c1fed9fd94fa0d56f
> > Author: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri Mar 11 22:35:29 2022 +0300
> > 
> >     platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get_irq() and its ilk
> >     
> >     [ Upstream commit ce753ad1549cbe9ccaea4c06a1f5fa47432c8289 ]
> >     
> >     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")
> >     Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> >     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/025679e1-1f0a-ae4b-4369-01164f691511@xxxxxx
> >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>    I don't think that's a good idea to queue this patch for stable -- it was an
> -rc1 material and it's going to break things...

Agreed, now dropped from all stable queues.

greg k-h



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