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Fold coalesced_mmio_has_room() into its sole caller, coalesced_mmio_write(), as it's really just a single line of code, has a goofy return value, and is unnecessarily brittle. E.g. if coalesced_mmio_has_room() were to check ring->last directly, or the caller failed to use READ_ONCE(), KVM would be susceptible to TOCTOU attacks from userspace. Opportunistically add a comment explaining why on earth KVM leaves one entry free, which may not be obvious to readers that aren't familiar with ring buffers. No functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Ilias Stamatis <ilstam@amazon.com> Cc: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828181446.652474-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.