[PATCH v2 08/15] riscv: misaligned: enable IRQs while handling misaligned accesses

Clément Léger cleger at rivosinc.com
Mon Feb 10 13:35:41 PST 2025


We can safely reenable IRQs if they were enabled in the previous
context. This allows to access user memory that could potentially
trigger a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cleger at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
index 55d9f3450398..3eecc2addc41 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ enum misaligned_access_type {
 static void do_trap_misaligned(struct pt_regs *regs, enum misaligned_access_type type)
 {
 	irqentry_state_t state = irqentry_enter(regs);
+	bool enable_irqs = !regs_irqs_disabled(regs);
+
+	/* Enable interrupts if they were enabled in the interrupted context. */
+	if (enable_irqs)
+		local_irq_enable();
 
 	if (type ==  MISALIGNED_LOAD) {
 		if (handle_misaligned_load(regs))
@@ -217,6 +222,9 @@ static void do_trap_misaligned(struct pt_regs *regs, enum misaligned_access_type
 				      "Oops - store (or AMO) address misaligned");
 	}
 
+	if (enable_irqs)
+		local_irq_disable();
+
 	irqentry_exit(regs, state);
 }
 
-- 
2.47.2




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