linux-kernel - Re: pci_alloc_irq_vectors use in 8250

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2016 01:20:17 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pci_alloc_irq_vectors use in 8250_lpss.c

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> two comment on your ぱatch to add MSI support to the above driver.
>>
>> First pci_alloc_irq_vectors gained a mandatory flags argument, so
>> for MSI suport you now need to pass PCI_IRQ_MSI in flags for the
>> code to work.
>
> I will check this. Thanks for pointing to it.

Yeah, this has to be amended.

>
>>
>> Second please make sure to always pair pci_alloc_irq_vectors
>> with pci_free_irq_vectors on the remove path.
>
> For my opinion it should be done in PCI code since I'm using
> manageable resources. It's already done for all PCI API usually used
> at ->probe().

Nothing is required to do until you don't use some specific code. If
you plan extend *_free_*() function in the future, please, consider
manageable resources and automatic releasing.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko