From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:34:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v4] irqchip/gicv3-its: Don't allow devices whose ID is outside range In-Reply-To: <1458227925-21952-1-git-send-email-shankerd@codeaurora.org> References: <1458227925-21952-1-git-send-email-shankerd@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <56EACE85.4090603@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 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...