This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genirq: Prevent resend to interrupts marked IRQ_NESTED_THREAD to the 3.10-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: genirq-prevent-resend-to-interrupts-marked-irq_nested_thread.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 75a06189fc508a2acf470b0b12710362ffb2c4b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:10:17 +0200 Subject: genirq: Prevent resend to interrupts marked IRQ_NESTED_THREAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 75a06189fc508a2acf470b0b12710362ffb2c4b1 upstream. The resend mechanism happily calls the interrupt handler of interrupts which are marked IRQ_NESTED_THREAD from softirq context. This can result in crashes because the interrupt handler is not the proper way to invoke the device handlers. They must be invoked via handle_nested_irq. Prevent the resend even if the interrupt has no valid parent irq set. Its better to have a lost interrupt than a crashing machine. Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/irq/resend.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/irq/resend.c +++ b/kernel/irq/resend.c @@ -75,13 +75,21 @@ void check_irq_resend(struct irq_desc *d !desc->irq_data.chip->irq_retrigger(&desc->irq_data)) { #ifdef CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND /* - * If the interrupt has a parent irq and runs - * in the thread context of the parent irq, - * retrigger the parent. + * If the interrupt is running in the thread + * context of the parent irq we need to be + * careful, because we cannot trigger it + * directly. */ - if (desc->parent_irq && - irq_settings_is_nested_thread(desc)) + if (irq_settings_is_nested_thread(desc)) { + /* + * If the parent_irq is valid, we + * retrigger the parent, otherwise we + * do nothing. + */ + if (!desc->parent_irq) + return; irq = desc->parent_irq; + } /* Set it pending and activate the softirq: */ set_bit(irq, irqs_resend); tasklet_schedule(&resend_tasklet); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/genirq-prevent-resend-to-interrupts-marked-irq_nested_thread.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html