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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/dp: Actually read Adjust Request Post Cursor2 register
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:34:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y24o7sry.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202112100853.FDB294B86@keescook>

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 12:06:20PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> Post Cursor2 was completely optional for the transmitter even before it
>> was deprecated.
>> 
>> And now we'd be adding 5 bytes extra to all link status reads. To fix
>> the only user of drm_dp_get_adjust_request_post_cursor() that apparently
>> has never worked as intended. I'm just not convinced.
>> 
>> I was trying to look through the implications of DP_LINK_STATUS_SIZE
>> increase, and at least drm_dp_dpcd_read_phy_link_status() comes across
>> as something probably needing attention.
>
> Okay, it sounds like you'd prefer the "make it tegra-specific" patch I
> proposed. I will work that up as a proper patch and send it.

Yes. Of course, I'd like to hear Thierry's view as well.

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-03  8:43 [PATCH] drm/dp: Actually read Adjust Request Post Cursor2 register Kees Cook
2021-12-08 11:19 ` Jani Nikula
2021-12-09  5:54   ` Kees Cook
2021-12-09  6:23   ` Kees Cook
2021-12-09 22:20     ` Harry Wentland
2021-12-09 23:41       ` Kees Cook
2021-12-10 10:06         ` Jani Nikula
2021-12-10 16:53           ` Kees Cook
2021-12-13  9:34             ` Jani Nikula [this message]

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