[PATCHv4 4/4] ata: sata_dwc_460ex: fix infinite loop in NCQ tag completion bit-scanning

Rosen Penev <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:37:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ide
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The hand-rolled bit-scanning loop in the NCQ completion path has an
infinite loop bug.  When tag_mask has only high bits set (e.g.
0x80000000), the inner while loop left-shifts tag_mask until it
overflows to 0.  At that point !(0 & 1) is always true and 0 <<= 1
stays 0, causing an infinite loop in hardirq context with a spinlock
held.

Replace the open-coded bit-scanning with __ffs() which correctly
finds the least significant set bit and is bounded by the width of
the argument.

Fixes: 62936009f35a ("[libata] Add 460EX on-chip SATA driver, sata_dwc_460ex")
Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c b/drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c
index bc543a408963..8e3fc713891a 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_dwc_460ex.c
@@ -607,14 +607,9 @@ static irqreturn_t sata_dwc_isr(int irq, void *dev_instance)
 	status = ap->ops->sff_check_status(ap);
 	dev_dbg(ap->dev, "%s ATA status register=0x%x\n", __func__, status);
 
-	tag = 0;
 	while (tag_mask) {
-		while (!(tag_mask & 0x00000001)) {
-			tag++;
-			tag_mask <<= 1;
-		}
-
-		tag_mask &= (~0x00000001);
+		tag = __ffs(tag_mask);
+		tag_mask &= ~(1U << tag);
 		qc = ata_qc_from_tag(ap, tag);
 		if (unlikely(!qc)) {
 			dev_err(ap->dev, "failed to get qc");
-- 
2.55.0