Re: [PATCH] pci-hyperv: use kmalloc to allocate hypercall params buffer

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon Dec 05 2016 - 11:53:31 EST


On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:04:38 -0800
Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> + spin_lock_irqsave(&hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_lock, flags);
> +
> + params = &hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_params;
> + memset(params, 0, sizeof(*params));
> + params->partition_id = HV_PARTITION_ID_SELF;
> + params->source = 1; /* MSI(-X) */
> + params->address = msi_desc->msg.address_lo;
> + params->data = msi_desc->msg.data;
> + params->device_id = (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[5] << 24) |
> (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[4] << 16) |
> (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[7] << 8) |
> (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[6] & 0xf8) |
> PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn);
> - params.vector = cfg->vector;
> + params->vector = cfg->vector;
>
> for_each_cpu_and(cpu, dest, cpu_online_mask)
> - params.vp_mask |= (1ULL << vmbus_cpu_number_to_vp_number(cpu));
> + params->vp_mask |= (1ULL << vmbus_cpu_number_to_vp_number(cpu));
> +
> + hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_RETARGET_INTERRUPT, params, NULL);
>
> - hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_RETARGET_INTERRUPT, &params, NULL);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_lock, flags);

It looks like the additional locking here is being overly paranoid.
The caller is already holding the irq descriptor lock. Look at fixup_irqs.