genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chip

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: Esben Haabendal <eha@doredevelopment.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 3164ba7ce15..e1497481fe8 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -456,6 +456,9 @@ int __irq_set_trigger(struct irq_desc *desc, unsigned int irq,
 		/* note that IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK == IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK */
 		desc->status &= ~(IRQ_LEVEL | IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK);
 		desc->status |= flags;
+
+		if (chip != desc->chip)
+			irq_chip_set_defaults(desc->chip);
 	}
 
 	return ret;