Re: [PATCH 2/4] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP through nvmem

[Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>]

On 12/07/17 07:36, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>   
>> +static int nvmem_cell_read_u32(struct device* dev, const char *cell_id, u32 *val)
>> +{
>> +	struct nvmem_cell *cell;
>> +	void *buf;
>> +	size_t len;
>> +
>> +	cell = nvmem_cell_get(dev, cell_id);
>> +	if (IS_ERR(cell))
>> +		return PTR_ERR(cell);
>> +
>> +	buf = nvmem_cell_read(cell, &len);
>> +	if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
>> +		nvmem_cell_put(cell);
>> +		return PTR_ERR(buf);
>> +	}
>> +	if (len != sizeof(*val)) {
>> +		kfree(buf);
>> +		nvmem_cell_put(cell);
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>> +	memcpy(val, buf, sizeof(*val));

This can overflow the memory allocated to val, we should be careful here 
not to do so.
limit this to sizeof(u32) should be good. Also add some sanity checks to 
make sure that len is atleast 4 bytes.


>> +
>> +	kfree(buf);
>> +	nvmem_cell_put(cell);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
> The function looks nothing IMX specific, and could be a nvmem core
> function?
> 
> @Srinivas, thoughts?
Yep, this function looks generic, can be moved to nvmem layer.

Thanks,
srini