Re: [PATCH] soc: ti: QMSS: Fix usage of irq_set_affinity_hint

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Oct 30 2018 - 15:00:17 EST


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:18:08AM -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 10/30/2018 4:11 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > The Keystone QMSS driver is pretty damaged, in the sense that it
> > does things like this:
> >
> > irq_set_affinity_hint(irq, to_cpumask(&cpu_map));
> >
> > where cpu_map is a local variable. As we leave the function, this
> > will point to nowhere-land, and things will end-up badly.
> >
> > Instead, let's use a proper cpumask that gets allocated, giving
> > the driver a chance to actually work with things like irqbalance
> > as well as have a hypothetical 64bit future.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > I found this one by inspection after finding a similar bug in an
> > unrelated driver. It is only compile-tested. It would probably
> > a Cc stable, but that's Santosh's decision.
>
> Would be able to apply this fix from Marc for stable or it needs
> to be re-posted with CC to stable ?

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