This patch adds a comment in create_domUs() right before
domain_create() to explain the importance of the pre-increment
operator on the variable max_init_domid, to ensure that the
domid 0 is allocated only during start_xen() function by the
create_dom0() and not on any other possible code path to the
domain_create() function.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
---
Changes in v4:
- Change to the commit title
Changes in v3:
- removed check introduced in v2.
---
 xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
index 359957dc1b..b1d7b9849f 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
@@ -2508,6 +2508,11 @@ void __init create_domUs(void)
                                          GUEST_VPL011_SPI - 32 + 1);
         }
 
+        /*
+         * The variable max_init_domid is initialized with zero, so here it's
+         * very important to use the pre-increment operator to call
+         * domain_create() with a domid > 0. (domid == 0 is reserved for Dom0)
+         */
         d = domain_create(++max_init_domid, &d_cfg, false);
         if ( IS_ERR(d) )
             panic("Error creating domain %s\n", dt_node_name(node));
-- 
2.17.1

Hi Luca,

> On 14 Apr 2021, at 10:14, Luca Fancellu <Luca.Fancellu@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> This patch adds a comment in create_domUs() right before
> domain_create() to explain the importance of the pre-increment
> operator on the variable max_init_domid, to ensure that the
> domid 0 is allocated only during start_xen() function by the
> create_dom0() and not on any other possible code path to the
> domain_create() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>

Cheers,
Bertrand

> ---
> Changes in v4:
> - Change to the commit title
> Changes in v3:
> - removed check introduced in v2.
> ---
> xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> index 359957dc1b..b1d7b9849f 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> @@ -2508,6 +2508,11 @@ void __init create_domUs(void)
>                                          GUEST_VPL011_SPI - 32 + 1);
>         }
> 
> +        /*
> +         * The variable max_init_domid is initialized with zero, so here it's
> +         * very important to use the pre-increment operator to call
> +         * domain_create() with a domid > 0. (domid == 0 is reserved for Dom0)
> +         */
>         d = domain_create(++max_init_domid, &d_cfg, false);
>         if ( IS_ERR(d) )
>             panic("Error creating domain %s\n", dt_node_name(node));
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 

On 14/04/2021 10:14, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> This patch adds a comment in create_domUs() right before
> domain_create() to explain the importance of the pre-increment
> operator on the variable max_init_domid, to ensure that the
> domid 0 is allocated only during start_xen() function by the
> create_dom0() and not on any other possible code path to the
> domain_create() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>

Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

> ---
> Changes in v4:
> - Change to the commit title
> Changes in v3:
> - removed check introduced in v2.
> ---
>   xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> index 359957dc1b..b1d7b9849f 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
> @@ -2508,6 +2508,11 @@ void __init create_domUs(void)
>                                            GUEST_VPL011_SPI - 32 + 1);
>           }
>   
> +        /*
> +         * The variable max_init_domid is initialized with zero, so here it's
> +         * very important to use the pre-increment operator to call
> +         * domain_create() with a domid > 0. (domid == 0 is reserved for Dom0)
> +         */
>           d = domain_create(++max_init_domid, &d_cfg, false);
>           if ( IS_ERR(d) )
>               panic("Error creating domain %s\n", dt_node_name(node));
> 

-- 
Julien Grall