Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 18:03:41 EST


On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:12:16AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We found that this has nothing to do with the timer patches. There is a
> scribble in pcie_rootport_aspm_quirk that overwrites ptype_all.

Ick.

> quirk_aspm_offset[GET_INDEX(pdev->device, dev->devfn)]= cap_base + 0x10;
>
> does the evil deed. The array offset calculated by GET_INDEX is out of
> bounds.
>
> The definition of GET_INDEX is suspect:
>
> #define GET_INDEX(a, b) (((a - PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_MCH_PA) << 3) + b)
>
> should this not be
>
> #define GET_INDEX(a, b) ((((a) - PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_MCH_PA) << 3) + \
> ((b) & 7))
>
> ?

Dely, any thoughts about this, or know who would know about it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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