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SubjectRe: [BUG] kzalloc overflow in lpfc driver on 6k core system
Alex,

Myself and several others here at Emulex maintain the code. The
recommendations look fine. Feel free to post something if you beat us
to the work.

-- james s


On 12/3/2014 11:05 AM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:39:40PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
>> In similar code, mpt3sas and lockless hpsa just call get_cpu_mask()
>> inside the loop:
>> cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
>> for (i = 0; i < h->msix_vector; i++) {
>> rc = irq_set_affinity_hint(h->intr[i], get_cpu_mask(cpu));
>> cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, cpu_online_mask);
>> }
>>
>> get_cpu_mask() uses the global cpu_bit_bitmap array, which is declared
>> in kernel/cpu.c:
>> extern const unsigned long
>> cpu_bit_bitmap[BITS_PER_LONG+1][BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS)];
>>
>> That approach should work for lpfc.
> Ok, good deal. Thanks for the info, Robert. Do you know who the
> current maintainer is for this code? Would that be you? I included the
> two authors that get_maintainer reported, but haven't heard from them.
>
> I like this approach and don't mind implementing it myself, but I'd like
> to confirm that whoever would be responsible for merging the code is ok
> with the change before going forward. Of course, if the code has been
> orphaned, then I guess we just write away :)
>
> Thanks again for the help!
>
> - Alex
>
>



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