Re: [PATCH v2] ipmi: kcs_bmc: fix IRQ exception if the channel is not open

[Corey Minyard]

On 06/23/2018 08:51 AM, Haiyue Wang wrote:
> When kcs_bmc_handle_event calls kcs_force_abort function to handle the
> not open (no user running) KCS channel transaction, the returned status
> value -ENODEV causes the low level IRQ handler indicating that the irq
> was not for him by returning IRQ_NONE. After some time, this IRQ will
> be treated to be spurious one, and the exception dump happens.
>
>     irq 30: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>     CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.15-npcm750 #1
>     Hardware name: NPCMX50 Chip family
>     [<c010b264>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0106930>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
>     [<c0106930>] (show_stack) from [<c03dad38>] (dump_stack+0x8c/0xa0)
>     [<c03dad38>] (dump_stack) from [<c0168810>] (__report_bad_irq+0x3c/0xdc)
>     [<c0168810>] (__report_bad_irq) from [<c0168c34>] (note_interrupt+0x29c/0x2ec)
>     [<c0168c34>] (note_interrupt) from [<c0165c80>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x5c/0x68)
>     [<c0165c80>] (handle_irq_event_percpu) from [<c0165cd4>] (handle_irq_event+0x48/0x6c)
>     [<c0165cd4>] (handle_irq_event) from [<c0169664>] (handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc8/0x198)
>     [<c0169664>] (handle_fasteoi_irq) from [<c016529c>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x90/0xe8)
>     [<c016529c>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<c01014bc>] (gic_handle_irq+0x58/0x9c)
>     [<c01014bc>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c010752c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
>     Exception stack(0xc0a01de8 to 0xc0a01e30)
>     1de0:                   00002080 c0a6fbc0 00000000 00000000 00000000 c096d294
>     1e00: 00000000 00000001 dc406400 f03ff100 00000082 c0a01e94 c0a6fbc0 c0a01e38
>     1e20: 00200102 c01015bc 60000113 ffffffff
>     [<c010752c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c01015bc>] (__do_softirq+0xbc/0x358)
>     [<c01015bc>] (__do_softirq) from [<c011c798>] (irq_exit+0xb8/0xec)
>     [<c011c798>] (irq_exit) from [<c01652a0>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x94/0xe8)
>     [<c01652a0>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<c01014bc>] (gic_handle_irq+0x58/0x9c)
>     [<c01014bc>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c010752c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90)
>     Exception stack(0xc0a01ef8 to 0xc0a01f40)
>     1ee0:                                                       00000000 000003ae
>     1f00: dcc0f338 c0111060 c0a00000 c0a0cc44 c0a0cbe4 c0a1c22b c07bc218 00000001
>     1f20: dcffca40 c0a01f54 c0a01f58 c0a01f48 c0103524 c0103528 60000013 ffffffff
>     [<c010752c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0103528>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x48/0x4c)
>     [<c0103528>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c0681390>] (default_idle_call+0x30/0x3c)
>     [<c0681390>] (default_idle_call) from [<c0156f24>] (do_idle+0xc8/0x134)
>     [<c0156f24>] (do_idle) from [<c015722c>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x28/0x2c)
>     [<c015722c>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<c067ad74>] (rest_init+0x84/0x88)
>     [<c067ad74>] (rest_init) from [<c0900d44>] (start_kernel+0x388/0x394)
>     [<c0900d44>] (start_kernel) from [<0000807c>] (0x807c)
>     handlers:
>     [<c041c5dc>] npcm7xx_kcs_irq
>     Disabling IRQ #30
>
> It needs to change the returned status from -ENODEV to 0. The -ENODEV
> was originally used to tell the low level IRQ handler that no user was
> running, but not consider the IRQ handling desgin.
>
> And multiple KCS channels share one IRQ handler, it needs to check the
> IBF flag before doing force abort. If the IBF is set, after handling,
> return 0 to low level IRQ handler to indicate that the IRQ is handled.

I've looked at this some more, and I think it's ok, especially with the 
better description.

I'm going to submit this for the current release after it sits in next 
for a bit.

Thanks,

-corey

> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>    - Change the commit message to be more understandable.
> ---
>   drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c | 31 ++++++++++---------------------
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
> index fbfc05e..bb882ab1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
> @@ -210,34 +210,23 @@ static void kcs_bmc_handle_cmd(struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc)
>   int kcs_bmc_handle_event(struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc)
>   {
>   	unsigned long flags;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int ret = -ENODATA;
>   	u8 status;
>   
>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&kcs_bmc->lock, flags);
>   
> -	if (!kcs_bmc->running) {
> -		kcs_force_abort(kcs_bmc);
> -		ret = -ENODEV;
> -		goto out_unlock;
> -	}
> -
> -	status = read_status(kcs_bmc) & (KCS_STATUS_IBF | KCS_STATUS_CMD_DAT);
> -
> -	switch (status) {
> -	case KCS_STATUS_IBF | KCS_STATUS_CMD_DAT:
> -		kcs_bmc_handle_cmd(kcs_bmc);
> -		break;
> -
> -	case KCS_STATUS_IBF:
> -		kcs_bmc_handle_data(kcs_bmc);
> -		break;
> +	status = read_status(kcs_bmc);
> +	if (status & KCS_STATUS_IBF) {
> +		if (!kcs_bmc->running)
> +			kcs_force_abort(kcs_bmc);
> +		else if (status & KCS_STATUS_CMD_DAT)
> +			kcs_bmc_handle_cmd(kcs_bmc);
> +		else
> +			kcs_bmc_handle_data(kcs_bmc);
>   
> -	default:
> -		ret = -ENODATA;
> -		break;
> +		ret = 0;
>   	}
>   
> -out_unlock:
>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcs_bmc->lock, flags);
>   
>   	return ret;