On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:42:00 +0100,
Aniruddha Banerjee wrote:
>
> From: Aniruddha Banerjee <[email protected]>
>
> 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.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Aniruddha Banerjee <[email protected]>
I've applied this after having reworked the commit log a bit.
Thanks,
M.
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