Hi Hannes, Thanks for taking a look at the rest of these. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:46:23PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Hi Hannes, > > This is a revision of your v3 series: > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455525722-122040-1-git-send-email-hare@xxxxxxx > > Here's the description from your v3 posting: > > the current PCI VPD page access assumes that the entire possible VPD > data is readable. However, the spec only guarantees a VPD data up to > the 'end' marker, with everything beyond that being undefined. > This causes a system lockup on certain devices. > > With this patch we always set the VPD sysfs attribute size to '0', and > calculate the available VPD size on the first access. > If no valid data can be read an I/O error is returned. Just to see if I have this right: the VPD file size in sysfs will always appear as zero, regardless of whether it has been read or written, right? I don't think the user-visible size should change. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
