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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-04-19 10:35:17 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-04-19 13:56:56 +0200
commit1c6c69525b40eb76de8adf039409722015927dc3 (patch)
tree29ba450b43c3025c28ca9f42a81e10a0e8d9460e /drivers
parentc0ecaa06d6d40cb02cd264ddb308e82f0a49ec91 (diff)
genirq: Reject bogus threaded irq requests
Requesting a threaded interrupt without a primary handler and without IRQF_ONESHOT set is dangerous. The core will use the default primary handler for it, which merily wakes the thread. For a level type interrupt this results in an interrupt storm, because the interrupt line is reenabled after the primary handler runs. The device has still the line asserted, which brings us back into the primary handler. While this works for edge type interrupts, we play it safe and reject unconditionally because we can't say for sure which type this interrupt really has. The type flags are unreliable as the underlying chip implementation can override them. And we cannot assume that developers using that interface know what they are doing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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