Re: Oops on /proc/interrupt access with 6.5-rc1

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 07:02:55 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 07:14:02PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:51:10 +0100,
> Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Konrad reported on IRC that he hit a segfault and hang when watch:ing
> > /proc/interrupts with 6.5-rc1.
> >
> > I tried simply catting it and hit the below oops immediately with my
> > X13s (aarch64).
> >
> > Commit 721255b9826b ("genirq: Use a maple tree for interrupt descriptor
> > management") stood out when skimming the log, and Marc soon suggested
> > the same possible culprit on IRC.

Turns out we had a buggy patch that requested an irq using a stack
allocated name. So false alarm.

Sorry about the noise.

Johan