Re: [PATCH] powercap/intel_rapl: fix and tidy up error handling

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 16:07:48 EST


On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Jacob Pan
<jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit e1399ba20eee ("powercap / RAPL: handle missing MSRs") added
> contraint_to_pl() function to return index into an array. But it
> can potentially return -EINVAL if powercap layer sends an out of
> range constraint ID. This patch adds sanity check.
>
> Unnecessary RAPL domain pointer check is removed since it must be
> initialized before calling rapl_unit_xlate().
>
> Reported-by: Odzioba, Lukasz <lukasz.odzioba@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Koss, Marcin <marcin.koss@xxxxxxxxx>

Does this depend on the Thomas' series only?

Also, it looks like a Fixes: tag should be present here.

>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Rafael