From: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
Fan Ni <nifan.cxl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] cxl/pci: Get rid of pointer arithmetic reading CDAT table
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:21:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZdtM6UJM733qAukn@rric.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240219125059.0000737c@Huawei.com>
On 19.02.24 12:50:59, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:58:43 +0100
> Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com> wrote:
>
> > Reading the CDAT table using DOE requires a Table Access Response
> > Header in addition to the CDAT entry. In current implementation this
> > has caused offsets with sizeof(__le32) to the actual buffers. This led
> > to hardly readable code and even bugs. E.g., see fix of devm_kfree()
> > in read_cdat_data():
> >
> > c65efe3685f5 cxl/cdat: Free correct buffer on checksum error
> >
> > Rework code to avoid calculations with sizeof(__le32). Introduce
> > struct cdat_doe_rsp for this which contains the Table Access Response
> > Header and a variable payload size for various data structures
> > afterwards to access the CDAT table and its CDAT Data Structures
> > without recalculating buffer offsets.
> >
> > Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> > Cc: Fan Ni <nifan.cxl@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
> Ok. I suspect we could fine tune this for ever but changes here look good
> enough to me and definitely nicer than the original ;)
>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Thanks for your review of this series and also the v5 update for patch
#3.
-Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-25 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-16 15:58 [PATCH v4 0/3] CDAT updates and fixes Robert Richter
2024-02-16 15:58 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] cxl/pci: Rename DOE mailbox handle to doe_mb Robert Richter
2024-02-16 15:58 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] cxl/pci: Get rid of pointer arithmetic reading CDAT table Robert Richter
2024-02-19 12:50 ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-02-25 14:21 ` Robert Richter [this message]
2024-02-16 15:58 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] lib/firmware_table: Provide buffer length argument to cdat_table_parse() Robert Richter
2024-02-17 10:43 ` kernel test robot
2024-02-17 21:39 ` [PATCH v5] " Robert Richter
2024-02-19 12:53 ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-02-18 12:58 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] " kernel test robot
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