From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
To: <driver-core@lists.linux.dev>, <nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev>,
<rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>, Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Russ Weight <russ.weight@linux.dev>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf()
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:27:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260702192712.3450652-2-ttabi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702192712.3450652-1-ttabi@nvidia.com>
Add request_into_buf(), a Rust wrapper around the
request_firmware_into_buf() function. This variant loads the firmware
image directly into a caller-provided buffer rather than a
kernel-allocated one.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
---
rust/kernel/firmware.rs | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/firmware.rs b/rust/kernel/firmware.rs
index 71168d8004e2..4460fb2cd5d8 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/firmware.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/firmware.rs
@@ -120,6 +120,53 @@ fn drop(&mut self) {
}
}
+/// Load firmware directly into the caller-provided `buf`.
+///
+/// On success the firmware image has been copied into `buf`; the caller accesses the data
+/// through `buf` itself.
+///
+/// This is intentionally a stand-alone function rather than a `Firmware` constructor. For
+/// the `into_buf` path, the firmware data lives in the caller's `buf`, not in a
+/// kernel-owned buffer, so returning a `Firmware` would expose `Firmware::data()` as a
+/// second handle aliasing `buf` (and `release_firmware()` does not free `buf` anyway).
+pub fn request_into_buf(name: &CStr, dev: &Device, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result {
+ // `as_mut_ptr()` on an empty slice returns a non-NULL pointer to
+ // memory which the loader does not own. Passing that pointer with `size == 0`
+ // makes the loader believe that it is buffer it allocated itself, so when
+ // `release_firmware()` is called, it will vfree the pointer and trigger a
+ // bug. Reject empty slices to avoid this situation.
+ if buf.is_empty() {
+ return Err(crate::error::code::EINVAL);
+ }
+
+ let mut fw: *mut bindings::firmware = core::ptr::null_mut();
+ let pfw: *mut *mut bindings::firmware = &mut fw;
+ let pfw: *mut *const bindings::firmware = pfw.cast();
+
+ // SAFETY: `pfw` is a valid pointer to a NULL initialized `bindings::firmware` pointer.
+ // `name` and `dev` are valid as by their type invariants. `buf` is a valid writable
+ // buffer of `buf.len()` bytes.
+ let ret = unsafe {
+ bindings::request_firmware_into_buf(
+ pfw,
+ name.as_char_ptr(),
+ dev.as_raw(),
+ buf.as_mut_ptr().cast(),
+ buf.len(),
+ )
+ };
+ if ret != 0 {
+ return Err(Error::from_errno(ret));
+ }
+
+ // The firmware bytes are now in `buf`, which the caller owns, so we don't need
+ // the kernel to hang on to it any more.
+ // SAFETY: `fw` is a valid pointer returned by `request_firmware_into_buf`.
+ unsafe { bindings::release_firmware(fw) };
+
+ Ok(())
+}
+
// SAFETY: `Firmware` only holds a pointer to a C `struct firmware`, which is safe to be used from
// any thread.
unsafe impl Send for Firmware {}
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 19:27 [PATCH v3 0/7] Transition Nova Core to TLV firmare images Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2026-07-03 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf() Alvin Sun
2026-07-03 3:06 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-03 13:51 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-06 6:30 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-06 10:50 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-07 2:54 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-07 5:10 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-07 13:32 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:45 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-07 2:56 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-07 5:13 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-08 22:48 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 3:43 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-09 21:29 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-08 20:12 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 1:55 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] gpu: nova-core: transition booter_load to TLV images Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-08 20:46 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 3:51 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-09 21:31 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gen_bootloader " Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-08 22:26 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 2:24 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-09 21:27 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 21:49 ` John Hubbard
2026-07-09 22:13 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 22:29 ` John Hubbard
2026-07-09 22:39 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-09 22:41 ` John Hubbard
2026-07-09 22:44 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] gpu: nova-core: transition fsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] gpu: nova-core: update firmware module info for " Timur Tabi
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