Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Limit number of per-device MSIs to the range the ITS supports

From: Marc Zyngier

Date: Sat Feb 07 2026 - 17:25:43 EST


On Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:22:56 +0000,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 06 2026 at 15:48, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>
> > The ITS driver blindly assumes that EventIDs are in abundant supply,
> > to the point where it never checks how many the HW actually supports.
> >
> > It turns out that some pretty esoteric integrations make it so that
> > only a few bits are available, all the way down to a. single. bit.
> >
> > Enforce the advertised limitation at the point of allocating the
> > device structure, and hope that the endpoint driver can deal with
> > such limitation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Can you please provide a Fixes tag?

That'd be

Fixes: 84a6a2e7fc18d ("irqchip: GICv3: ITS: device allocation and configuration")

Thanks,

M.

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