[bug report] powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 20 11:28:40 AEST 2017
On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 04:20 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
>
> The patch 243e25112d06: "powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the
> XIVE interrupt controller" from Apr 5, 2017, leads to the following
> static checker warning:
>
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c:184
> __xive_native_disable_queue()
> info: ignoring unreachable code.
>
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c
> 176 static void __xive_native_disable_queue(u32 vp_id, struct
> xive_q *q, u8 prio)
> 177 {
> 178 s64 rc;
> 179
> 180 /* Disable the queue in HW */
> 181 for (;;) {
> 182 rc = opal_xive_set_queue_info(vp_id, prio, 0,
> 0, 0);
> 183 break;
>
> This should be "if (!rc) break;"
Thanks, for some reason that line got accidentally dropped... oops.
>
> 184 msleep(1);
> 185 }
> 186 if (rc)
>
> But we need some kind of timeout to ever print this error message.
>
> 187 pr_err("Error %lld disabling queue for prio
> %d\n", rc, prio);
> 188 }
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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