From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: random.c changes for sparse irq_desc are crap
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:29:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230748169.19620.132.camel@calx> (raw)
I just noticed you merged a change that pointlessly converts two
random.c functions into ugly random.h inlines without going through the
maintainer.
I also don't like the look of the newly-introduced sparse variants of
these functions. Failure to find an irq descriptor in
get_timer_rand_state is a BUG_ON should-never-happen sort of condition,
not something to silently ignore. Letting the code try to dereference
NULL is preferred here: we'll actually be able to find and fix the
broken driver that's throwing around meaningless irq vectors.
Throwing away the timer_state pointer in the set_timer_rand_state
function is similarly bogus in addition to being a memory leak.
Please fix this up.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 18:29 Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-12-31 23:07 ` random.c changes for sparse irq_desc are crap Yinghai Lu
2008-12-31 23:40 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-01 0:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-01-01 9:31 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-02 15:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-03 8:06 ` [PATCH] sparseirq: move set/get_timer_rand_state back to .c Yinghai Lu
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