Re: [PATCH] IDE: correct partially initialised hw structures

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 16:09:07 EST


No major issues here; however does it not stomp on the preloaded defaults?

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Peter Denison wrote:

> Summary: Initialise all parts of hw_regs_t structures before passing them
> to ide_register_hw
>
> The hw structure (specifically the hw->chipset field) held uninitialised
> data. This (before the initialisation order fixup recently posted) meant
> that no chipset could ever get selected by an idex=<chipset> commandline
> (silently!).
>
> Only occurs on non-PCI platforms. All ARM platforms have already been
> fixed - though slightly differently.
>
> I'm not sure how valid a lot of the code I patched actually is. Does it
> make sense on e.g. ia64 or x86_64 to specify CONFIG_PCI = n? Or even to
> have the concept of default interfaces? The interfaces should get probed
> anyway, and the ide_init_hwif_ports() part is called from init_hwif_data()
> already. The only thing these arch-specific routines do extra is calling
> ide_register_hw, which probably wants to happen from the probes, not here.
>
> Applies: 2.5.44 (and probably others)
>
> --- linux/include/asm-ia64/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:11:35.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-ia64/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:47:26.000000000 +0000
> @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-x86_64/ide.h.old 2002-10-19 12:43:40.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-x86_64/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:47:46.000000000 +0000
> @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-ppc/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:11:33.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-ppc/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:48:20.000000000 +0000
> @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
> int index;
> ide_ioreg_t base;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for (index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> base = ide_default_io_base(index);
> if (base == 0)
> --- linux/include/asm-mips/ide.h.old 2002-08-25 13:26:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-mips/ide.h 2002-10-27 19:37:39.000000000 +0000
> @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-parisc/ide.h.old 2002-08-25 13:26:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-parisc/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:48:54.000000000 +0000
> @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-i386/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:02:03.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-i386/ide.h 2002-10-19 00:17:05.000000000 +0100
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
> #ifndef CONFIG_PCI
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
> +
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
>
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> --- linux/include/asm-sparc64/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:02:03.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-sparc64/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:50:10.000000000 +0000
> @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for (index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-alpha/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:11:37.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-alpha/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:50:58.000000000 +0000
> @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for (index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-sparc/ide.h.old 2002-10-06 10:02:03.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-sparc/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:52:12.000000000 +0000
> @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for (index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-cris/ide.h.old 2002-08-25 13:26:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-cris/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:52:48.000000000 +0000
> @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-mips64/ide.h.old 2002-08-25 13:26:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-mips64/ide.h 2002-10-27 19:38:04.000000000 +0000
> @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
> --- linux/include/asm-sh/ide.h.old 2002-08-25 13:26:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/include/asm-sh/ide.h 2002-10-27 18:53:46.000000000 +0000
> @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@
> hw_regs_t hw;
> int index;
>
> + memset(&hw, 0, sizeof(hw_regs_t));
> +
> for(index = 0; index < MAX_HWIFS; index++) {
> ide_init_hwif_ports(&hw, ide_default_io_base(index), 0, NULL);
> hw.irq = ide_default_irq(ide_default_io_base(index));
>
> --
> Peter Denison <peterd at marshadder dot uklinux dot net>
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>

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

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