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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: <jw@quattru.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	<david.vrabel@citrix.com>, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/pciback: Fix conf_space read/write overlap check.
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:56:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <576BB239.2010008@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466533596-15122-1-git-send-email-andrey2805@gmail.com>

On 21/06/16 19:26, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> Current overlap check is evaluating to false a case where a filter field
> is fully contained (proper subset) of a r/w request.
> This change applies classical overlap check instead to include
> all the scenarios.
> 
> More specifically, for (Hilscher GmbH CIFX 50E-DP(M/S)) device
> driver the logic is such that the entire confspace  is read and
> written in 4 byte chunks.In this case as an example, CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
> LATENCY_TIMER and PCI_BIST are arriving together in one call to
> xen_pcibk_config_write with offset == 0xc and size == 4.
> With the exsisting overlap check LATENCY_TIMER field
> (offset == 0xd, length == 1) is fully contained in the write request
> and hence is excluded from write, which is incorrect.

Applied to for-linus-4.7b, thanks.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-23  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-21 18:26 [PATCH] xen/pciback: Fix conf_space read/write overlap check Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-06-22  6:49 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-23  9:56 ` David Vrabel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-21 14:37 Andrey Grodzovsky
2016-06-21 17:15 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel

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