Re: [irqchip: irq/irqchip-next] irqchip/ls-extirq: Fix endianness detection

[Sean Anderson]

On 12/16/22 13:22, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2022-12-16 16:37, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> Hi Stable maintainers,
>>
>> On 12/5/22 06:21, irqchip-bot for Sean Anderson wrote:
>>> The following commit has been merged into the irq/irqchip-next branch of irqchip:
>>>
>>> Commit-ID:     3ae977d0e4e3a2a2ccc912ca2d20c9430508ecdd
>>> Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms/3ae977d0e4e3a2a2ccc912ca2d20c9430508ecdd
>>> Author:        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx>
>>> AuthorDate:    Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:28:07 -05:00
>>> Committer:     Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> CommitterDate: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:39:52
>>>
>>> irqchip/ls-extirq: Fix endianness detection
>>>
>>> parent is the interrupt parent, not the parent of node. Use
>>> node->parent. This fixes endianness detection on big-endian platforms.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 1b00adce8afd ("irqchip/ls-extirq: Fix invalid wait context by avoiding to use regmap")
>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221201212807.616191-1-sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c
>>> index d8d48b1..139f26b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c
>>> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ ls_extirq_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
>>>         if (ret)
>>>                 goto err_parse_map;
>>>
>>> -       priv->big_endian = of_device_is_big_endian(parent);
>>> +       priv->big_endian = of_device_is_big_endian(node->parent);
>>>         priv->is_ls1021a_or_ls1043a = of_device_is_compatible(node, "fsl,ls1021a-extirq") ||
>>>                                       of_device_is_compatible(node, "fsl,ls1043a-extirq");
>>>         raw_spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
>>
>> This patch has made it into linux/master, but it should also get
>> backported to 6.1. Just want to make sure this doesn't fall through the
>> cracks, since this was a really annoying bug to deal with (causes an IRQ
>> storm).
> 
> If you wanted it backported, why didn't it have a Cc: stable
> the first place? In any case, if you want a backport to happen,
> you'll have to post that backport.

Usually, anything with a Fixes: tag gets picked up. Actually, I was
expecting you to submit a PR for 6.1, since this was submitted before
that release came out.

That said, this email is "option 2" of
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst, so I don't think I need
to do "option 3".

--Sean