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Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:18:51 -0800 (PST) >-----Original Message----- >From: Yury Norov >Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:04 PM >To: Souradeep Chakrabarti >Cc: KY Srinivasan ; Haiyang Zhang >; wei.liu@kernel.org; Dexuan Cui >; davem@davemloft.net; edumazet@google.com; >kuba@kernel.org; pabeni@redhat.com; Long Li ; >leon@kernel.org; cai.huoqing@linux.dev; ssengar@linux.microsoft.com; >vkuznets@redhat.com; tglx@linutronix.de; linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org; >netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux- >rdma@vger.kernel.org; Souradeep Chakrabarti ; >Paul Rosswurm >Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH V5 net-next] net: mana: Assigning IRQ affin= ity on >HT cores > >[Some people who received this message don't often get email from >yury.norov@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at >https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > >> > > > > + rcu_read_lock(); >> > > > > + for_each_numa_hop_mask(next, next_node) { >> > > > > + cpumask_andnot(curr, next, prev); >> > > > > + for (w =3D cpumask_weight(curr), cnt =3D 0; cnt < = w; ) { >> > > > > + cpumask_copy(cpus, curr); >> > > > > + for_each_cpu(cpu, cpus) { >> > > > > + irq_set_affinity_and_hint(irqs[i], >topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu)); >> > > > > + if (++i =3D=3D nvec) >> > > > > + goto done; >> > > > >> > > > Think what if you're passed with irq_setup(NULL, 0, 0). >> > > > That's why I suggested to place this check at the beginning. >> > > > >> > > irq_setup() is a helper function for mana_gd_setup_irqs(), which >> > > already takes care of no NULL pointer for irqs, and 0 number of inte= rrupts can >not be passed. >> > > >> > > nvec =3D pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 2, max_irqs, PCI_IRQ_MSIX); if >> > > (nvec < 0) >> > > return nvec; >> > >> > I know that. But still it's a bug. The common convention is that if >> > a 0-length array is passed to a function, it should not dereference >> > the pointer. >> > >> I will add one if check in the begining of irq_setup() to verify the >> pointer and the nvec number. > >Yes you can, but what for? This is an error anyways, and you don't care ab= out early >return. So instead of adding and bearing extra logic, I'd just swap 2 line= s of existing >code. Problem with the code you had proposed is shown below: > ./a.out i is 1 i is 2 i is 3 i is 4 i is 5 i is 6 i is 7 i is 8 i is 9 i is 10 in done lisatest ~ > cat test3.c #include main() { int i =3D 0, cur, nvec =3D 10; for (cur =3D 0; cur < 20; cur++) { if (i++ =3D=3D nvec) goto done; printf(" i is %d\n", i); } done: = = = =20 printf("in done\n"); } So now it is because post increment operator in i++, For that reason in the posposed code we will hit irqs[nvec], which may caus= e crash, as size of irqs is nvec. Now if we preincrement, then we will loop correctly, but nvec =3D=3D 0 chec= k will not happen. Like here with preincrement in above code we are not hitting (i =3D=3D nvec= ) . > ./a.out i is 1 i is 2 i is 3 i is 4 i is 5 i is 6 i is 7 i is 8 i is 9 in done So with preincrement if we want the check for nvec =3D=3D 0, we will need t= he check with extra if condition before the loop.