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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] irqchip/mmp: A pair of robustness fixed
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 02:04:34PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:00:22 +0100
> Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> wrote:
>
> [+RobH]
>
> Lubomir,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > please consider applying these two patches. Thery are not strictly
> > necessary, but improve diagnostics in case the DT is faulty.
>
> Can't we instead make sure our DT infrastructure checks for these? I'm
> very reluctant to add more "DT validation" to the kernel, as it feels
> like the wrong place to do this.

These are not really problems of the DT infrastructure. It's that the
driver has some constrains resulting from use of global data ([PATCH 1])
and statically sized arrays ([PATCH 2]) without enforcing them.

It's probably easier to mess up DT than to mess up board files, but
regardless of that, being a little defensive and checking the bounds of
arrays is probably a good programming practice anyways.

Thank you
Lubo

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