Re: [PATCH] net: sxgbe: fix error paths in sxgbe_platform_probe()

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Sun Mar 27 2016 - 04:23:22 EST


Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> We need to use post-decrement to ensure that irq_dispose_mapping is
> also called on priv->rxq[0]->irq_no; moreover, if one of the above for
> loops failed already at i==0 (so we reach one of these labels with
> that value of i), we'll enter an essentially infinite loop of
> out-of-bounds accesses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(ok, i is signed)

Reviewed-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Someone messed with my review on 2014/03/25 and got it wrong. :o/

Two years after the initial submission, there is zero change regarding use
of sxgbe_core_ops for extension or manageability. The extra indirection is
ripe for removal during next net-next.

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Ueimor