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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>,
	Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 12/15] PNPACPI: ignore _PRS interrupt numbers larger than PNP_IRQ_NR
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:23:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48432F74.1010507@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530224933.755433659@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On 31-05-08 00:49, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> ACPI Extended Interrupt Descriptors can encode 32-bit interrupt
> numbers, so an interrupt number may exceed the size of the bitmap
> we use to track possible IRQ settings.
> 
> To avoid corrupting memory, complain and ignore too-large interrupt
> numbers.
> 
> There's similar code in pnpacpi_parse_irq_option(), but I didn't
> change that because the small IRQ descriptor can only encode
> IRQs 0-15, which do not exceed bitmap size.
> 
> In the future, we could handle IRQ numbers greater than PNP_IRQ_NR
> by replacing the bitmap with a table or list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-01 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-30 22:48 [patch 00/15] PNP: convert resource options to unified dynamic list, v1 Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 01/15] serial: when guessing, check only active resources, not options Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:42   ` Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:21     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 02/15] PNP: whitespace/coding style fixes Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:52   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 03/15] PNP: define PNP-specific IORESOURCE_IO_* flags alongside IRQ, DMA, MEM Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:03   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 04/15] PNP: make resource option structures private to PNP subsystem Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:06   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 05/15] PNP: introduce pnp_irq_mask_t typedef Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:25   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:48 ` [patch 06/15] PNP: increase I/O port & memory option address sizes Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:39   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 07/15] PNP: improve resource assignment debug Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:41   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 08/15] PNP: in debug resource dump, make empty list obvious Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:44   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 09/15] PNP: make resource assignment functions return 0 (success) or -EBUSY (failure) Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 21:59   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 10/15] PNP: remove redundant pnp_can_configure() check Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 22:00   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 11/15] PNP: centralize resource option allocations Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:21   ` Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:29     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 12/15] PNPACPI: ignore _PRS interrupt numbers larger than PNP_IRQ_NR Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:23   ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 13/15] PNP: rename pnp_register_*_resource() local variables Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 23:25   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 14/15] PNP: support optional IRQ resources Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 17:37   ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 20:20     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 20:25       ` Rene Herman
2008-05-30 22:49 ` [patch 15/15] PNP: convert resource options to single linked list Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 19:57   ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 23:03     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-04  0:03       ` Rene Herman
2008-06-03 23:52     ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 11:48       ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 20:50         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-04 22:31           ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 23:06             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-03 21:13   ` Rene Herman
2008-06-04 21:26     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-01 19:28 ` [patch 00/15] PNP: convert resource options to unified dynamic list, v1 Rene Herman
2008-06-02 15:56   ` Bjorn Helgaas

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