linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Use freq_table for available

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <534D7D58.4050201@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:41:28 -0700
From:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
To:	myungjoo.ham@...sung.com
CC:	박경민 <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Use freq_table for available_frequencies

On 04/14/2014 11:30 PM, 함명주 wrote:
>> On 04/14/2014 06:36 PM, 함명주 wrote:
>>>> MyungJoo/Kyungmin,
>>>>
>>>> Bump. Can we accept this patch please?
>>>>
>>>> -Saravana
>>>
>>> Nack.
>>>
>>> Please note that freq_table is also an optional value, which may
>>> be null.
>>
>> Ah, I saw that the max_freq would be zero if freq_table was NULL and I
>> assumed that it can't be NULL. But I see that the max_freq limit is not
>> applied if it's zero. Thanks for catching it.
>>
>>> Besides, please be aware that your code is under rcu_read_lock().
>>
>> Valid point. I was just trying to keep the diff simple. No one's really
>> going to be catting this file often when performance matters.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> MyungJoo.
>>>
>>> ps. I'll send a related patch (avoid accessing null but not-an-error
>>> pointer at other sysfs nodes). Thank you for letting me catch such bugs anyway.
>>
>> I can go ahead and do this myself if you don't mind.
> 
> No, we don't need it. It was a false alarm.
> Reading again, I've found that we've already made other sysfs nodes
> check if either freq_table is null or its size is 0.
> 
> So, we only need to look at this available_frequencies node now.
> 
> I'll add some notes on the ABI doc for available_frequencies soon.
> 

Ah, I misunderstood your previous email. I thought you Nack-ed my patch
and decided to send your own patch to replace mine. Ok, I'll fix up mine
and send it out.

-Saravana


-- 
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
hosted by The Linux Foundation
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/