linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/xive: Fix bogus error code returned by OPAL

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:26:00 +1000 (AEST)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Greg Kurz <groug@...d.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/xive: Fix bogus error code returned by OPAL

On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 15:52:18 UTC, Greg Kurz wrote:
> There's a bug in skiboot that causes the OPAL_XIVE_ALLOCATE_IRQ call
> to return the 32-bit value 0xffffffff when OPAL has run out of IRQs.
> Unfortunatelty, OPAL return values are signed 64-bit entities and
> errors are supposed to be negative. If that happens, the linux code
> confusingly treats 0xffffffff as a valid IRQ number and panics at some
> point.
> 
> A fix was recently merged in skiboot:
> 
> e97391ae2bb5 ("xive: fix return value of opal_xive_allocate_irq()")
> 
> but we need a workaround anyway to support older skiboots already
> in the field.
> 
> Internally convert 0xffffffff to OPAL_RESOURCE which is the usual error
> returned upon resource exhaustion.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.12+
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@...d.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6ccb4ac2bf8a35c694ead92f8ac5530a16e8f2c8

cheers