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[Xen-devel] Re: Shall we clear the cpumap in XEN_DOMCTL_setvcpuaffinity

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Shall we clear the cpumap in XEN_DOMCTL_setvcpuaffinity
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:43:06 +0100
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On 12/05/2010 08:22, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When browse code, I noticed if the op->u.vcpuaffinity.cpumap is NULL, a random
> value of new_affinity will be passed to vcpu_set_affinity(), as in followed
> code.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is expected result. IMO, we should return -EINVAL if no
> cpu specified, as the return value at vcpu_set_affinity() for empty cpumap.

Xen-unstable:21350.

 Thanks,
 Keir

> Did I missed anything?
> 
>     case XEN_DOMCTL_getvcpuaffinity:
>     {
>         domid_t dom = op->domain;
>         struct domain *d = rcu_lock_domain_by_id(dom);
>         struct vcpu *v;
>         cpumask_t new_affinity;
> ......
>         if ( op->cmd == XEN_DOMCTL_setvcpuaffinity )
>         {
>             xenctl_cpumap_to_cpumask(  >>>>> the new_affinity is not
> initialized for if cpumap==NULL
>                 &new_affinity, &op->u.vcpuaffinity.cpumap);
>             ret = vcpu_set_affinity(v, &new_affinity);
>         }
> 
> Thanks
> --jyh



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