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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] msi: Avoid uninitialized msi descriptors

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] [PATCH] msi: Avoid uninitialized msi descriptors
From:	Wei Wang2 <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:43:02 +0200
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Hi,
When __pci_enable_msix() returns early, output parameter (struct msi_desc 
**desc) will not be initialized.  On my machine, a Broadcom BCM5709 nic has 
both MSI and MSIX capability blocks and when guest tries to enable msix 
interrupts but __pci_enable_msix() returns early for encountering a msi 
block,  the whole system will crash for fatal page fault immediately.

Thanks, 
Wei

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
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