Re: [BUG] pinctrl_mcp23s08_i2c: mutex used in irq_bus_lock causes 'scheduling while atomic' with matrix_keypad

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Apr 15 2025 - 04:14:11 EST


On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM Lukas Schmid <lukas.schmid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm encountering a "BUG: scheduling while atomic" when using the MCP23017 GPIO
> expander with the `matrix_keypad` driver in IRQ mode on Linux v6.12.20

Apply this commit from the upstream kernel:

commit a37eecb705f33726f1fb7cd2a67e514a15dfe693 (tag: pinctrl-v6.13-2)
Author: Evgenii Shatokhin <e.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 9 10:46:59 2024 +0300

pinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking

If a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following
bug can happen:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
...
Call Trace:
...
__might_resched+0x104/0x10e
__might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c
regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18
regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66
mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6
__irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172
__setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646
request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160
...


Yours,
Linus Walleij