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From: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
To: "'Jan Beulich'" <jbeulich@suse.com>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "'Stefano Stabellini'" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"'Julien Grall'" <julien@xen.org>, "'Wei Liu'" <wl@xen.org>,
	"'George Dunlap'" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	"'Andrew Cooper'" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"'Ian Jackson'" <ian.jackson@citrix.com>,
	"'Roger Pau Monné'" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking adjustments
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 08:34:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001d01d65043$2d137890$873a69b0$@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb6a96c6-b6b1-76ff-f9db-10bec0fb4ab1@suse.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Sent: 01 July 2020 11:23
> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>; George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>; Ian
> Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>; Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>; Stefano
> Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>; Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>; Paul Durrant
> <paul@xen.org>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking adjustments
> 
> As was pointed out by 0e2e54966af5 ("mm: fix public declaration of
> struct xen_mem_acquire_resource"), we're not currently handling structs
> correctly that have uint64_aligned_t fields. Patch 2 demonstrates that
> there was also an issue with XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_64().
> 
> Only the 1st patch was previously sent, but the approach chosen has
> been changed altogether. All later patches are new. For 4.14 I think
> at least patch 1 should be considered.

It's now quite a large patch. Since xen_mem_acquire_resouce() has been fixed, patch #1 (as you say in the comment there) is addressing a latent issue and so I’d prefer not to take what is now quite a large patch into 4.14.

  Paul

> 
> 1: x86: fix compat header generation
> 2: x86/mce: add compat struct checking for XEN_MC_inject_v2
> 3: x86/mce: bring hypercall subop compat checking in sync again
> 4: x86/dmop: add compat struct checking for XEN_DMOP_map_mem_type_to_ioreq_server
> 5: x86: generalize padding field handling
> 6: flask: drop dead compat translation code
> 7: x86: only generate compat headers actually needed
> 
> Jan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-01 10:22 [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking adjustments Jan Beulich
2020-07-01 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] x86: fix compat header generation Jan Beulich
2020-07-01 16:10   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 16:17     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-15  8:43   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  8:56     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-01 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] x86/mce: add compat struct checking for XEN_MC_inject_v2 Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 10:24   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-14 11:44     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 14:30   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 10:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/mce: bring hypercall subop compat checking in sync again Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 11:19   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-14 11:47     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 14:31       ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  6:27         ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 14:32   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/dmop: add compat struct checking for XEN_DMOP_map_mem_type_to_ioreq_server Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 11:19   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] x86: generalize padding field handling Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 14:29   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  6:36     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-15  8:34       ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  8:47         ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-01 10:28 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] flask: drop dead compat translation code Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 14:58   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  6:42     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-15  8:41       ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  8:52         ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-15 10:08           ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 10:28 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] x86: only generate compat headers actually needed Jan Beulich
2020-07-14 15:03   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-15  6:47     ` Jan Beulich
2020-07-02  7:34 ` Paul Durrant [this message]
2020-07-02  7:42   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking adjustments Jan Beulich

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