On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> ide-pci.c bug:
>
> ide_setup_pci_baseregs() may inappropriately report device as not capable of full
>native PCI:
>
> // BUGGY LINE: ============
> if (pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_CLASS_PROG, &progif) || (progif & 5) != 5) {
> // ========= TWO CONDITIONS USING PROGIF
> if ((progif & 0xa) != 0xa) {
> printk("%s: device not capable of full native PCI mode\n", name);
> return 1;
> }
>
> ...
>
> In the first line of code above there is no guarantee that the first condition
>will be executed
> before the second. As progif is set to 0 before this block of code, the second test
>will always
> be true if it is executed prior to the first.
if () are serial in test.
>
>
>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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