If we accidentally unmask IRQs before we've registered an IRQ controller, handle_arch_irq will be NULL, and the IRQ exception handler will branch to a bogus address.
To make this easier to debug, this patch initialises handle_arch_irq to a default handler which will panic(), making such problems easier to debug. When we add support for FIQ handlers, we can follow the same approach. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> Cc: Hector Martin <mar...@marcan.st> Cc: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <m...@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c index ad63bd50fa7b..00bcf37aa0ea 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c @@ -71,11 +71,16 @@ static void init_irq_stacks(void) } #endif -void (*handle_arch_irq)(struct pt_regs *) __ro_after_init; +void default_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + panic("IRQ taken without a registered IRQ controller\n"); +} + +void (*handle_arch_irq)(struct pt_regs *) __ro_after_init = default_handle_irq; int __init set_handle_irq(void (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *)) { - if (handle_arch_irq) + if (handle_arch_irq != default_handle_irq) return -EBUSY; handle_arch_irq = handle_irq; @@ -87,7 +92,7 @@ void __init init_IRQ(void) init_irq_stacks(); init_irq_scs(); irqchip_init(); - if (!handle_arch_irq) + if (handle_arch_irq == default_handle_irq) panic("No interrupt controller found."); if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) { -- 2.11.0