Re: [PATCH 15/16] irqchip/gic-v3: fail T241 quirk if alias ioremap fails

From: Marc Zyngier

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 10:57:50 EST


On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:24:51 +0100,
Haofeng Li <920484857@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NVIDIA T241 GICD alias setup only warns about a failed ioremap, then
> enables gic_nvidia_t241_erratum. Later accesses through the missing
> alias can dereference NULL.

There won't be any later accesses, the machine is *dead*, short of
reliably handle interrupts. The only thing this patch is doing is
giving a false sense of having fixed something, while it is far worse
than the existing situation.

Please tell that to your LLM.

M.

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