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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2] Xen: ARM: Zero reserved fields of xatp before making hypervisor call



On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 28/12/16 01:47, Jiandi An wrote:
> > Ensure all reserved fields of xatp are zero before making
> > hypervisor call to XEN in xen_map_device_mmio().
> > xenmem_add_to_physmap_one() in XEN fails the mapping request if
> > extra.res reserved field in xatp is not zero for XENMAPSPACE_dev_mmio
> > request.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiandi An <anjiandi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changed zeroing xatp to a static initialization
> > of .domid and .space for xatp.
> > 
> >  drivers/xen/arm-device.c | 8 +++++---
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/xen/arm-device.c b/drivers/xen/arm-device.c
> > index 778acf8..85dd20e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/xen/arm-device.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/arm-device.c
> > @@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ static int xen_map_device_mmio(const struct resource 
> > *resources,
> >     xen_pfn_t *gpfns;
> >     xen_ulong_t *idxs;
> >     int *errs;
> > -   struct xen_add_to_physmap_range xatp;
> >  
> >     for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> > +           struct xen_add_to_physmap_range xatp = {
> > +                   .domid = DOMID_SELF,
> > +                   .space = XENMAPSPACE_dev_mmio
> > +           };
> > +
> 
> I still don't see the need to re-initialize the input parts of xatp
> on each loop iteration unless you can show the need for it (e.g. a
> buggy hypervisor version not conforming to the interface specification).
> 
> OTOH I don't feel really strong about it and let Stefano being the
> maintainer for the ARM parts decide.

I don't feel strongly about this either - I think this patch is good
enough. I'll apply to xentip.

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