On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 02:35:32 PM Sudeep Holla wrote: > > On 15/09/15 10:31, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > > > > On 15/09/15 00:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> On Monday, September 14, 2015 04:14:46 PM Sudeep Holla wrote: > >>> acpi_parse_entries passes the table end pointer to the sub-table entry > >>> handler. acpi_parse_entries itself could validate the end of an entry > >>> against the table end using the length in the sub-table entry. > >>> > >>> This patch adds the validation of the sub-table entry end using the > >>> length field.This will help to eliminate the need to pass the table end > >>> to the handlers. > >>> > >>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> > >> > > [...] > > > I will respin the patch as per your suggestion but needs to go only > > after Al's MADT patches. > > > > Alternately we can retain passing table_end to the handlers for now. > > Once Al's MADT series removes those BAD_GIC_ENTRY macros, there will be > no users of that second argument in subtable handlers and it can be > completely removed. Let me know your thoughts. I'm going to apply the Al's series, so that sounds like the way to go. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
