Re: [PATCH resend] pci: ARI is a PCIe v2 feature

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Thu Jul 14 2011 - 04:01:34 EST


On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:14:33 -0700
Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The function pci_enable_ari() may mistakenly set the downstream port
> of a v1 PCIe switch in ARI Forwarding mode. This is a PCIe v2
> feature, and with an SR-IOV device on that switch port believing the
> switch above is ARI capable it may attempt to use functions 8-255,
> translating into invalid (non-zero) device numbers for that bus.
> This has been seen to cause Completion Timeouts and general
> misbehaviour including hangs and panics.


Thanks Chris, your earlier one is still sitting in my queue, but I
wasn't going to send it for 3.0 as it didn't seem that critical. Do
you think it is? If so you can send it directly to Linus with my ack
as I don't have anything else queued, or just wait until the merge
window when it will be put into the stable tree as well.

Thanks,
Jesse
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