[PATCH v3 2/7] PCI: xilinx-nwl: Fix off-by-one in IRQ handler
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Fri May 24 07:56:21 PDT 2024
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:21:52AM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> On 5/22/24 18:28, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 10:53:57AM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> >> MSGF_LEG_MASK is laid out with INTA in bit 0, INTB in bit 1, INTC in bit
> >> 2, and INTD in bit 3. Hardware IRQ numbers start at 0, and we register
> >> PCI_NUM_INTX irqs. So to enable INTA (aka hwirq 0) we should set bit 0.
> >> Remove the subtraction of one. This fixes the following UBSAN error:
> >
> > Thanks for these details!
> >
> > I guess UBSAN == "undefined behavior sanitizer", right? That sounds
> > like an easy way to find this but not the way users are likely to find
> > it.
>
> It's pretty likely they will find it this way, since I found it this way
> and no one else had ;)
>
> > I assume users would notice spurious and missing interrupts, e.g.,
> > a driver that tried to enable INTB would have actually enabled INTA,
> > so we'd see spurious INTA interrupts and the driver would never see
> > the INTB it expected.
> >
> > And a driver that tried to enable INTA would never see that interrupt,
> > and we might not set any bit in MSGF_LEG_MASK?
>
> And yes, this would manifest as INTx interrupts being broken.
>
It's so weird that it's been broken for seven years and no one reported
it. :/
regards,
dan carpenter
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