Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, 2026-07-09 at 12:43 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> > sig_bytes.len() cannot be 0, so we know that sig_size cannot be 0, and therefore
> > 
> >         sig_bytes.chunks_exact(sig_size).nth(index).ok_or(EINVAL)
> > 
> > chunks_exact() cannot fail.
> 
> Basically we want a guarantee that `sig_size` is not zero. I'd prefer if
> we could enforce that using the type system rather than relying on a
> guarantee that `get_bytes` doesn't return an empty slice, because even
> that guarantee alone is not enough - we also need `num_sigs > 0` and
> `sig_bytes.len() % num_sigs == 0` for that.

I'm about to post a v4 that has a "get_signature()" method that encapsulates all this
processing.  I think it addresses most, if not all, of these issues.  It does depend on
get_bytes() not returning an empty slice, though.