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Re: [PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is outside range

From Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is outside range
Date 2016-03-17 16:40 +0100
Message-ID <rdIbM-Jr-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <rdI27-Gq-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 17/03/16 15:18, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> We are not checking whether the requested device identifier fits into
> the device table memory or not. The function its_create_device()
> assumes that enough memory has been allocated for whole DevID space
> (reported by ITS_TYPER.Devbits) during the ITS probe() and continues
> to initialize ITS hardware.
> 
> This assumption is not perfect, sometimes we reduce memory size either
> because of its size crossing MAX_ORDER-1 or BASERn max size limit. The
> MAPD command fails if 'Device ID' is outside of device table range.
> 
> Add a simple validation check to avoid MAPD failures since we are
> not handling ITS command errors. This change also helps to return an
> error -ENOMEM instead of success to caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>

Is there any difference between this patch and the one you posted on
March 10th?

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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[PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is outside range Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-17 16:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is  outside range Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is  outside range Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-17 18:20 +0100

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