Hi Aniruddha, On 28/03/18 09:54, Aniruddha Banerjee wrote: > The kernel documentation states that the locking of the irq-chip > registers should be handled by the irq-chip driver. In the irq-gic, > the accesses to the irqchip are seemingly not protected and multiple > writes to SPIs from different irq descriptors do RMW requests without > taking the irq-chip lock. When multiple irqs call the request_irq at > the same time, there can be a simultaneous write at the gic > distributor, leading to a race. Acquire the gic_lock when the > irq_type is updated. > > Signed-off-by: Aniruddha Banerjee <aniruddhab@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes from V1: > > * Moved the spinlock from irq-gic to irq-gic common, so that the fix > is valid for GIC v1/v2/v3. > > Change from V2: > > * Fixup the Signed-off-by line. > > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c > index 9ae71804b5dd..73dd39959e6e 100644 > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ > > #include "irq-gic-common.h" > > +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(irq_controller_lock); > + > static const struct gic_kvm_info *gic_kvm_info; > > const struct gic_kvm_info *gic_get_kvm_info(void) > @@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ int gic_configure_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned int type, > * Read current configuration register, and insert the config > * for "irq", depending on "type". > */ > + raw_spin_lock(&irq_controller_lock); > val = oldval = readl_relaxed(base + GIC_DIST_CONFIG + confoff); > if (type & IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_MASK) > val &= ~confmask; > @@ -64,8 +67,10 @@ int gic_configure_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned int type, > val |= confmask; > > /* If the current configuration is the same, then we are done */ > - if (val == oldval) > + if (val == oldval) { > + raw_spin_unlock(&irq_controller_lock); > return 0; > + } > > /* > * Write back the new configuration, and possibly re-enable > @@ -83,6 +88,7 @@ int gic_configure_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned int type, > pr_warn("GIC: PPI%d is secure or misconfigured\n", > irq - 16); > } > + raw_spin_unlock(&irq_controller_lock); > > if (sync_access) > sync_access(); > I've just realized a potential issue: As interrupts are not disabled here, you could take one in the middle of this critical section. If the interrupt handler has the stupid idea to change the trigger type of *any* interrupt, we deadlock. Yes, this would be a very stupid idea, but better safe than sorry. Please use raw_pin_lock_irqsave/irqrestore instead. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...