[PATCH] counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

From: A. Sverdlin
Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 05:21:05 EST


From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

An IRQ handler can either be IRQF_NO_THREAD or acquire spinlock_t, as
CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING warns:
=============================
[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
6.18.0-rc1+git... #1
-----------------------------
some-user-space-process/1251 is trying to lock:
(&counter->events_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: counter_push_event [counter]
other info that might help us debug this:
context-{2:2}
no locks held by some-user-space-process/....
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: some-user-space-process 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1 PREEMPT
Call trace:
show_stack (C)
dump_stack_lvl
dump_stack
__lock_acquire
lock_acquire
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
counter_push_event [counter]
interrupt_cnt_isr [interrupt_cnt]
__handle_irq_event_percpu
handle_irq_event
handle_simple_irq
handle_irq_desc
generic_handle_domain_irq
gpio_irq_handler
handle_irq_desc
generic_handle_domain_irq
gic_handle_irq
call_on_irq_stack
do_interrupt_handler
el0_interrupt
__el0_irq_handler_common
el0t_64_irq_handler
el0t_64_irq

... and Sebastian correctly points out. Remove IRQF_NO_THREAD as an
alternative to switching to raw_spinlock_t, because the latter would limit
all potential nested locks to raw_spinlock_t only.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117151314.xwLAZrWY@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: a55ebd47f21f ("counter: add IRQ or GPIO based counter")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c b/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
index 6c0c1d2d7027d..e6100b5fb082e 100644
--- a/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
+++ b/drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c
@@ -229,8 +229,7 @@ static int interrupt_cnt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

irq_set_status_flags(priv->irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN);
ret = devm_request_irq(dev, priv->irq, interrupt_cnt_isr,
- IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING | IRQF_NO_THREAD,
- dev_name(dev), counter);
+ IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING, dev_name(dev), counter);
if (ret)
return ret;

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2.51.1