> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guilherme G. Piccoli [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 1:15 PM
> To: dl-esc-Aacraid Linux Driver <[email protected]>; linux-
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; Dave Carroll
> <[email protected]>; Raghava Aditya Renukunta
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] scsi: aacraid: Prevent crash in case of free interrupt
> during scsi EH path
> 
> EXTERNAL EMAIL
> 
> 
> As part of the scsi EH path, aacraid performs a reinitialization of
> the adapter, which encompass freeing resources and IRQs, NULLifying
> lots of pointers, and then initialize it all over again.
> We've identified a problem during the free IRQ portion of this path
> if CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ is enabled on kernel config file.
> 
> Happens that, in case this flag was set, right after free_irq()
> effectively clears the interrupt, it checks if it was requested
> as IRQF_SHARED. In positive case, it performs another call to the
> IRQ handler on driver. Problem is: since aacraid currently free
> some resources *before* freeing the IRQ, once free_irq() path
> calls the handler again (due to CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ), aacraid
> crashes due to NULL pointer dereference with the following trace:
> 
>   aac_src_intr_message+0xf8/0x740 [aacraid]
>   __free_irq+0x33c/0x4a0
>   free_irq+0x78/0xb0
>   aac_free_irq+0x13c/0x150 [aacraid]
>   aac_reset_adapter+0x2e8/0x970 [aacraid]
>   aac_eh_reset+0x3a8/0x5d0 [aacraid]
>   scsi_try_host_reset+0x74/0x180
>   scsi_eh_ready_devs+0xc70/0x1510
>   scsi_error_handler+0x624/0xa20
> 
> This patch prevents the crash by changing the order of the
> deinitialization in this path of aacraid: first we clear the IRQ,
> then we free other resources. No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <[email protected]>
> ---

Thank you for the fix. Much appreciated. 

Reviewed-by :Raghava Aditya Renukunta <[email protected]>

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