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    genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chip · 46732475
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    The set_type() function can change the chip implementation when the
    trigger mode changes. That might result in using an non-initialized
    irq chip when called from __setup_irq() or when called via
    set_irq_type() on an already enabled irq. 
    
    The set_irq_type() function should not be called on an enabled irq,
    but because we forgot to put a check into it, we have a bunch of users
    which grew the habit of doing that and it never blew up as the
    function is serialized via desc->lock against all users of desc->chip
    and they never hit the non-initialized irq chip issue.
    
    The easy fix for the __setup_irq() issue would be to move the
    irq_chip_set_defaults(desc->chip) call after the trigger setting to
    make sure that a chip change is covered.
    
    But as we have already users, which do the type setting after
    request_irq(), the safe fix for now is to call irq_chip_set_defaults()
    from __irq_set_trigger() when desc->set_type() changed the irq chip.
    
    It needs a deeper analysis whether we should refuse to change the chip
    on an already enabled irq, but that'd be a large scale change to fix
    all the existing users. So that's neither stable nor 2.6.35 material.
    Reported-by: default avatarEsben Haabendal <eha@doredevelopment.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
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