On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:56 PM Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not understanding the problem here. Any VMbus driver that uses > this requestID allocation mechanism must set newchannel->rqstor_size > to a non-zero value. But if a VMbus driver doesn't use the mechanism, > then newchannel->rqstor_size will default to zero, and the mechanism > will not be initialized for the channels used by that driver. I think the > cleanup of the mechanism handles the case where it wasn't ever > initialized. Or am I missing something? > > Michael Yes, that is correct. I think the validation is necessary if there exists an instance where a driver call vmbus_next_request_id or vmbus_request_addr() with a rqstor that has not been previously initialized. Currently, the rqstor pointer is not being validated in these 2 functions, because we assume that the driver has initialized the array with a non-zero value before calling next_id() or request_addr(). Andres.
