linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/iommu: check dev->iommu_group before remove a device from iommu

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Message-ID: <52117765.7010205@ozlabs.ru>
Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:39:49 +1000
From:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
To:	Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@....ibm.com, paulus@....ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/iommu: check dev->iommu_group before remove
 a device from iommu_group

On 08/19/2013 11:29 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:15:36PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 08/16/2013 08:08 PM, Wei Yang wrote:
>>> ---
>>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c |    3 ++-
>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
>>> index b20ff17..5abf7c3 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
>>> @@ -1149,7 +1149,8 @@ static int iommu_bus_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
>>>  	case BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE:
>>>  		return iommu_add_device(dev);
>>>  	case BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE:
>>> -		iommu_del_device(dev);
>>> +		if (dev->iommu_group)
>>> +			iommu_del_device(dev);
>>>  		return 0;
>>>  	default:
>>>  		return 0;
>>>
>>
>> This one seems redundant, no?
> 
> Sorry for the late.
> 
> Yes, these two patches have the same purpose to guard the system, while in two
> different places.  One is in powernv platform, the other is in the generic iommu 
> driver.
> 
> The one in powernv platform is used to correct the original logic.
> 
> The one in generic iommu driver is to keep system safe in case other platform to
> call iommu_group_remove_device() without the check.


But I am moving bus notifier to powernv code (posted a patch last week,
otherwise Freescale's IOMMU conflicted) so this won't be the case.



-- 
Alexey
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