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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory: fix XSA-158 fix
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:02:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449658943.16124.184.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5668162602000078000BD8A0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 03:53 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> For one the uses of domu_max_order and ptdom_max_order were swapped.

> And then gcc warns about an unused result of a __must_check function
> in the control part of a conditional expression when both other
> expressions can be determined by the compiler to produce the same value
> (see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68039), which happens
> when HAS_PASSTHROUGH is undefined (i.e. for ARM on 4.4 and older).

Should we issue an updated 158 for all this?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

> 
> --- a/xen/common/memory.c
> +++ b/xen/common/memory.c
> @@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ static unsigned int __read_mostly ctldom
>  static unsigned int __read_mostly hwdom_max_order = CONFIG_HWDOM_MAX_ORDER;
>  #ifdef HAS_PASSTHROUGH
>  static unsigned int __read_mostly ptdom_max_order = CONFIG_PTDOM_MAX_ORDER;
> -#else
> -# define ptdom_max_order domu_max_order
>  #endif
>  static void __init parse_max_order(const char *s)
>  {
> @@ -75,8 +73,12 @@ custom_param("memop-max-order", parse_ma
>  
>  static unsigned int max_order(const struct domain *d)
>  {
> -    unsigned int order = cache_flush_permitted(d) ? domu_max_order
> -                                                  : ptdom_max_order;
> +    unsigned int order = domu_max_order;
> +
> +#ifdef HAS_PASSTHROUGH
> +    if ( cache_flush_permitted(d) && order < ptdom_max_order )
> +        order = ptdom_max_order;
> +#endif
>  
>      if ( is_control_domain(d) && order < ctldom_max_order )
>          order = ctldom_max_order;
> 
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-09 10:53 [PATCH] memory: fix XSA-158 fix Jan Beulich
2015-12-09 11:02 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-12-09 11:10   ` Jan Beulich

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