Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fixes for HiSilicon LPC driver and logical PIO code

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 20/06/2019 13:42, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> For patches that go to a soc maintainer for merge, we're asking that
> people don't cc arm@kernel.org directly.
>
> We prefer to keep that alias mostly for pull requests from other
> maintainers and patches we might have a reason to apply directly.
> Otherwise we risk essentially getting all of linux-arm-kernel into
> this mailbox as well.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Olof
>

Hi Olof,

Can do in future.

The specific reason here for me to cc arm@kernel.org was that I wanted 
to at least make the maintainers aware that we intend to send some 
patches outside the "arm soc" domain through their tree, * below.

Thanks,
John


> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:33 AM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> As reported in [1], the hisi-lpc driver has certain issues in handling
>> logical PIO regions, specifically unregistering regions.
>>
>> This series add a method to unregister a logical PIO region, and fixes up
>> the driver to use them.
>>
>> RCU usage in logical PIO code looks to always have been broken, so that
>> is fixed also. This is not a major fix as the list which RCU protects is
>> very rarely modified.
>>
>> There is another patch to simplify logical PIO registration, made possible
>> by the fixes.
>>
>> At this point, there are still separate ongoing discussions about how to
>> stop the logical PIO and PCI host bridge code leaking ranges, as in [2].
>>

*

>> Hopefully this series can go through the arm soc tree and the maintainers
>> have no issue with that. I'm talking specifically about the logical PIO
>> code, which went through PCI tree on only previous upstreaming.
>>
>> Cc. linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1560770148-57960-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com/
>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4b24fd36-e716-7c5e-31cc-13da727802e7@huawei.com/
>>
>> John Garry (5):
>>   lib: logic_pio: Fix RCU usage
>>   lib: logic_pio: Add logic_pio_unregister_range()
>>   bus: hisi_lpc: Unregister logical PIO range to avoid potential
>>     use-after-free
>>   bus: hisi_lpc: Add .remove method to avoid driver unbind crash
>>   lib: logic_pio: Enforce LOGIC_PIO_INDIRECT region ops are set at
>>     registration
>>
>>  drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c    | 43 ++++++++++++++++++---
>>  include/linux/logic_pio.h |  1 +
>>  lib/logic_pio.c           | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>  3 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
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