[PATCH v2 1/2] irqchip/gic-v5: Clear per-CPU IRS data on teardown

Sascha Bischoff Sascha.Bischoff at arm.com
Tue Aug 11 08:27:00 PDT 2026


IRS affinity setup publishes an IRS pointer and IAFFID state in the
per-CPU data before the remaining IRS initialization can fail. The
error path then frees the IRS data without clearing that published
state, leaving CPUs associated with freed memory.

On initialization failure and normal IRS teardown, clear the per-CPU
IRS association by removing the stale pointer to irs_data. Also
invalidate the per-CPU IAFFID state for any CPUs that were tied to the
IRS before it was freed.

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi at kernel.org>
Fixes: 5cb1b6dab2de ("irqchip/gic-v5: Add GICv5 IRS/SPI support")
Fixes: 35866efa52fe ("irqchip/gic-v5: Add ACPI IRS probing")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260724104819.1296803-1-sascha.bischoff@arm.com?part=2
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff at arm.com>
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-irs.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-irs.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-irs.c
index f3fce0b1e25d9..3028a8bbbf68b 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-irs.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-irs.c
@@ -651,6 +651,18 @@ static int __init gicv5_irs_of_init_affinity(struct device_node *node,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static void __init gicv5_irs_clear_affinity(struct gicv5_irs_chip_data *irs_data)
+{
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (per_cpu(per_cpu_irs_data, cpu) == irs_data) {
+			per_cpu(cpu_iaffid, cpu).valid = false;
+			per_cpu(per_cpu_irs_data, cpu) = NULL;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 static void irs_setup_pri_bits(u32 idr1)
 {
 	switch (FIELD_GET(GICV5_IRS_IDR1_PRIORITY_BITS, idr1)) {
@@ -773,6 +785,7 @@ static int __init gicv5_irs_of_init(struct device_node *node)
 	return ret;
 
 out_iomem:
+	gicv5_irs_clear_affinity(irs_data);
 	iounmap(irs_base);
 out_err:
 	kfree(irs_data);
@@ -787,6 +800,7 @@ void __init gicv5_irs_remove(void)
 	gicv5_deinit_lpis();
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(irs_data, tmp_data, &irs_nodes, entry) {
+		gicv5_irs_clear_affinity(irs_data);
 		iounmap(irs_data->irs_base);
 		list_del(&irs_data->entry);
 		kfree(irs_data);
@@ -951,6 +965,7 @@ static int __init gic_acpi_parse_madt_irs(union acpi_subtable_headers *header,
 	return 0;
 
 out_map:
+	gicv5_irs_clear_affinity(irs_data);
 	iounmap(irs_base);
 out_release:
 	release_mem_region(r->start, resource_size(r));
-- 
2.34.1


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