From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio-balloon: initialize all vq callbacks Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:18:45 +0800 Message-ID: <5DF99A95.8050800@intel.com> References: <20191217190610.248061-1-dverkamp@chromium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20191217190610.248061-1-dverkamp@chromium.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Sender: "Virtualization" To: Daniel Verkamp , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 12/18/2019 03:06 AM, Daniel Verkamp wrote: > Ensure that elements of the array that correspond to unavailable > features are set to NULL; previously, they would be left uninitialized. > > Since the corresponding names array elements were explicitly set to > NULL, the uninitialized callback pointers would not actually be > dereferenced; however, the uninitialized callbacks elements would still > be read in vp_find_vqs_msix() and used to calculate the number of MSI-X > vectors required. With your 2nd patch: if (names[i] && callbacks[i]) ++nvectors; It seems this patch isn't necessary as names[i] is already NULL, isn't it? Best, Wei