netdev - Re: [PATCH V5 vfio 04/10] vfio: Add an IOVA bitmap support

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Message-ID: <YxE9Aco0Wz2vBYfF@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 20:15:13 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     joao.m.martins@...cle.com
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>, saeedm@...dia.com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        kevin.tian@...el.com, leonro@...dia.com, maorg@...dia.com,
        cohuck@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 vfio 04/10] vfio: Add an IOVA bitmap support

On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 08:39:40PM +0100, joao.m.martins@...cle.com wrote:

> > There's no sanity testing here that the caller provided an iova within
> > the mapped ranged.  Thanks,
> > 
> 
> Much of the bitmap helpers don't check that the offset is within the range
> of the passed ulong array. So I followed the same thinking and the
> caller is /provided/ with the range that the IOVA bitmap covers. The intention
> was minimizing the number of operations given that this function sits on the
> hot path. I can add this extra check.

I wouldn't add sanity testing on these hot paths..

Jason