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Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 07:31:14 +0200
From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/24] thunderbolt: Read vendor and device name from DROM
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On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:28:36PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:07:10PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > Apple uses 0x30 to store a
> > serial number.  Is this attribute number assigned by Intel to Apple
> > or is it reserved for vendor use or did they arbitrarily choose it?
> 
> It is part of the DROM specification. The 0x30 - 0x3e are vendor
> specific entries.

Ah, so I have to qualify the vendor number with Apple's ID before I know
that it's a serial number.  Thanks.


> > If there can be many attributes, should they be stored in a list
> > rather than adding a char* pointer for each one to struct tb_switch?
> > The latter doesn't scale.
> 
> I don't think we need other attributes (well, at least right now). The
> device/vendor name is useful because that's what we expose to the
> userspace for device identification along with the device/vendor ID.

Okay.  It might be worth to log additional attributes with info level.


> > > +static void tb_drom_parse_generic_entry(struct tb_switch *sw,
> > > +		struct tb_drom_entry_generic *entry)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (entry->header.index == 1)
> > > +		sw->vendor_name = kstrdup((char *)entry->data, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	else if (entry->header.index == 2)
> > > +		sw->device_name = kstrdup((char *)entry->data, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +}
> > 
> > This assumes that these are properly null-terminated strings, but the DROM
> > may contain complete garbage.  The existing drom parser is very careful
> > to validate and sanitize everything.
> 
> The DROM specification says they must be null-terminated but I yes, it
> is possible that some of the devices have it wrong. The generic entry
> includes length field so I suppose we can use that + kmemdup() instead
> here?

Yes, as long as you check that the last character is null.

Thanks,

Lukas