On 10/25/2016 11:19 AM, Suganath Prabu Subramani wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Please give us little more info on the third comment. It ll help us to
> understand better and
> incorporate required changes.
>
> Comment is "Why don't you need to check for the size of the bitmap here?"
>
> i have taken care of other two comments in this patch.
>
>> /* check if device is present */
>> @@ -5467,6 +5482,7 @@ _scsih_add_device(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, u16 handle, u8 phy_num,
>> sas_device = mpt3sas_get_sdev_by_addr(ioc,
>> sas_address);
>> if (sas_device) {
>> + clear_bit(handle, ioc->pend_os_device_add);
>> sas_device_put(sas_device);
>> return -1;
>> }
>
> Why don't you need to check for the size of the bitmap here?
>
>
Thing is, you are using 'ioc->pend_os_device_add' as a bitmap to track
which devices to add.
Which in turn means that the overall number of devices you _can_ add is
restricted by the size of the bitmap.
But as you're adding devices you (might) increase the number of devices,
potentially overflowing the bitmap.
Hence the question: is it possible that you can add _more_ devices than
the bitmap can hold?
Or, to put it the other way round: Why don't you need to check the size
of the bitmap to avoid accessing an invalid bit beyond the end of the mask?
Cheers,
Hannes
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