Re: [PATCH] net: ipa: don't overrun IPA suspend interrupt registers

[Simon Horman]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 01:04:50PM -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> In newer hardware, IPA supports more than 32 endpoints.  Some
> registers--such as IPA interrupt registers--represent endpoints
> as bits in a 4-byte register, and such registers are repeated as
> needed to represent endpoints beyond the first 32.
> 
> In ipa_interrupt_suspend_clear_all(), we clear all pending IPA
> suspend interrupts by reading all status register(s) and writing
> corresponding registers to clear interrupt conditions.
> 
> Unfortunately the number of registers to read/write is calculated
> incorrectly, and as a result we access *many* more registers than
> intended.  This bug occurs only when the IPA hardware signals a
> SUSPEND interrupt, which happens when a packet is received for an
> endpoint (or its underlying GSI channel) that is suspended.  This
> situation is difficult to reproduce, but possible.

I see what you mean about *many* more :)

> Fix this by correctly computing the number of interrupt registers to
> read and write.  This is the only place in the code where registers
> that map endpoints or channels this way perform this calculation.
> 
> Fixes: f298ba785e2d ("net: ipa: add a parameter to suspend registers")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>

As noted by Alex elsewhere elsewhere in this thread, this is for net.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>