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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questionable code in pci_sal_read
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:44:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16886.34187.323942.533224@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jek6q1o7p2.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:21:45 +0100, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> said:

  Andreas> These are the first few lines in pci_sal_read:
  Andreas> if ((seg > 255) || (bus > 255) || (devfn > 255) || (reg > 4095))
  Andreas> return -EINVAL;

  Andreas> if ((seg | reg) <= 255) {

  Andreas> When seg <= 255 then ((seg | reg) <= 255) is equivalent to
  Andreas> (reg <= 255).  But pci_sal_write only rejects (seg >
  Andreas> 65535).

  Andreas> The lines come from this changeset:

  Andreas> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%40407c8325V8ZAIQkFDRCUNpu5AXqG1g

Ah, yes, that looks wrong.  Looks like the check for (seg > 255) came
from the original pci_sal_read().  The original pci_sal_ext_read() did
check for (seg > 65535).  My bad.

Thanks for catching this.

	--david


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-25 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25 15:21 Questionable code in pci_sal_read Andreas Schwab
2005-01-25 15:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-25 17:44 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2005-01-25 20:47 ` Luck, Tony
2005-01-25 21:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-25 21:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas

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