genirq: Prevent resend to interrupts marked IRQ_NESTED_THREAD

commit 75a06189 upstream.

The resend mechanism happily calls the interrupt handler of interrupts
which are marked IRQ_NESTED_THREAD from softirq context. This can
result in crashes because the interrupt handler is not the proper way
to invoke the device handlers. They must be invoked via
handle_nested_irq.

Prevent the resend even if the interrupt has no valid parent irq
set. Its better to have a lost interrupt than a crashing machine.
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>

kernel/irq/resend.c

@@ -75,13 +75,21 @@ void check_irq_resend(struct irq_desc *desc, unsigned int irq)
 		    !desc->irq_data.chip->irq_retrigger(&desc->irq_data)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
 			/*
-			 * If the interrupt has a parent irq and runs
-			 * in the thread context of the parent irq,
-			 * retrigger the parent.
+			 * If the interrupt is running in the thread
+			 * context of the parent irq we need to be
+			 * careful, because we cannot trigger it
+			 * directly.
 			 */
-			if (desc->parent_irq &&
-			    irq_settings_is_nested_thread(desc))
+			if (irq_settings_is_nested_thread(desc)) {
+				/*
+				 * If the parent_irq is valid, we
+				 * retrigger the parent, otherwise we
+				 * do nothing.
+				 */
+				if (!desc->parent_irq)
+					return;
 				irq = desc->parent_irq;
+			}
 			/* Set it pending and activate the softirq: */
 			set_bit(irq, irqs_resend);
 			tasklet_schedule(&resend_tasklet);