On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:28:50PM +0000, Vinayak Kale wrote:
In Will's existing code, I think he was taking care of 'no IRQ' case
by comparing pmu_device->num_resources. Do you think this is not
enough and we must enforce the check after each platform_get_irq()?
Existing driver code snippet as below for quick reference.
[snip]
static int
armpmu_reserve_hardware(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
{
int i, err, irq, irqs;
struct platform_device *pmu_device = armpmu->plat_device;
if (!pmu_device) {
pr_err("no PMU device registered\n");
return -ENODEV;
}
irqs = min(pmu_device->num_resources, num_possible_cpus());
if (irqs < 1) {
pr_err("no irqs for PMUs defined\n");
return -ENODEV;
}
This bit is fine.
for (i = 0; i < irqs; ++i) {
err = 0;
irq = platform_get_irq(pmu_device, i);
if (irq < 0)
continue;
This is a bug, which you can fix in your patch. IRQ0 isn't valid.
Will