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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: themann@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, raisch@de.ibm.com, ossthema@de.ibm.com,
	osstklei@de.ibm.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc5] ehea: fix invalid pointer access
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:11:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25628.1241514687@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905041802.30527.hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>  	pref = skb_array[x];
> -	prefetchw(pref);
> -	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
> +	if (pref) {
> +		prefetchw(pref);
> +		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);

Ummm...  Is prefetch() or prefetchw() faulting?

David

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	themann@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, raisch@de.ibm.com,
	ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	ossthema@de.ibm.com, osstklei@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc5] ehea: fix invalid pointer access
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:11:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25628.1241514687@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905041802.30527.hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>  	pref = skb_array[x];
> -	prefetchw(pref);
> -	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
> +	if (pref) {
> +		prefetchw(pref);
> +		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);

Ummm...  Is prefetch() or prefetchw() faulting?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04 16:02 [PATCH 2.6.30-rc5] ehea: fix invalid pointer access Hannes Hering
2009-05-04 16:02 ` Hannes Hering
2009-05-04 18:07 ` David Miller
2009-05-04 18:07   ` David Miller
2009-05-05  9:11 ` David Howells [this message]
2009-05-05  9:11   ` David Howells
2009-05-05 11:19   ` Hannes Hering
2009-05-05 11:19     ` Hannes Hering
2009-05-05 12:19     ` David Howells
2009-05-05 12:19       ` David Howells
2009-05-05 13:45       ` Hannes Hering
2009-05-05 13:45         ` Hannes Hering

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