On 2015/6/16 15:31, tip-bot for Jiang Liu wrote:
> Commit-ID: 458526ec81d755dfaa17f3d863302afe6fbefca0
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/458526ec81d755dfaa17f3d863302afe6fbefca0
> Author: Jiang Liu <jiang....@linux.intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:05:11 +0800
> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:23:28 +0200
>
> genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
>
> The functions irq_move_irq() and irq_move_masked_irq() expect that the
> caller passes the top-level irq_data to them when hierarchical
> irqdomains are enabled. But that's not true when called from
> apic_ack_edge(), which results in a null pointer dereference by
> idata->chip->irq_mask(idata).
>
> Instead of fixing callers to passing top-level irq_data, we rather
> change irq_move_irq()/irq_move_masked_irq() to accept any irq_data.
>
> Fixes: 52f518a3a7c 'x86/MSI: Use hierarchical irqdomains to manage MSI
> interrupts'
Hi Thomas,
This patch has dependency on patch "[Patch v3 01/36] genirq:
Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain" in the
same patch set, otherwise irq_data_to_desc(idata) may return invalid
irq_desc and may cause memory crash.
Thanks!
Gerry
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