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Commit 4001d8e8 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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genirq: Delay deactivation in free_irq()

When interrupts are shutdown, they are immediately deactivated in the
irqdomain hierarchy. While this looks obviously correct there is a subtle
issue:

There might be an interrupt in flight when free_irq() is invoking the
shutdown. This is properly handled at the irq descriptor / primary handler
level, but the deactivation might completely disable resources which are
required to acknowledge the interrupt.

Split the shutdown code and deactivate the interrupt after synchronization
in free_irq(). Fixup all other usage sites where this is not an issue to
invoke the combined shutdown_and_deactivate() function instead.

This still might be an issue if the interrupt in flight servicing is
delayed on a remote CPU beyond the invocation of synchronize_irq(), but
that cannot be handled at that level and needs to be handled in the
synchronize_irq() context.

Fixes: f8264e34 ("irqdomain: Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomains")
Reported-by: Robert Hodaszi...
parent c8c40767
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