Re: [bug report] mt76: implement functions to get the response skb for MCU calls

[Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>]

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> I would like to revisit this question.  Last time I complained about
> this Johannes responded but he misread what mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg()
> does.  I have looked at it as well and I also cannot explain what is
> going on in that function.
> 
> I have looked at the callers and my first instinct is that maybe this
> is dead stub code?  But then when I look at mt76x02u_mcu_send_msg() I
> think "No, this is not stub code.  This should be returning the newly
> allocated skb to the caller."
> 
> But then I think, surely at some point someone tested this code???  It
> must be stub code.
> 
> Could we get some clarity on this?

for mt76x2 and mt76x0 we do not care of ret_skb (in fact we do not run
mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg() directly but we rely on mt76_mcu_send_msg()).
For mt7921 we set mcu_skb_send_msg function pointer and not mcu_send_msg.
Moreover mt7921_mcu_get_eeprom() has been remove a while back.
Am I missing something?

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 05:27:35PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 04:03:10PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 16:00 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >     1146         ret = mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg(&dev->mt76, MCU_EXT_CMD_EFUSE_ACCESS, &req,
> > > >     1147                                         sizeof(req), true, &skb);
> > > > 
> > > > If mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg() calls the dev->mcu_ops->mcu_send_msg()
> > > > then "skb" is not initialized.
> > > > 
> > > >     1148         if (ret)
> > > >     1149                 return ret;
> > > >     1150 
> > > > --> 1151         res = (struct mt7921_mcu_eeprom_info *)skb->data;
> > > 
> > > Looks like possibly 'skb' is always initialized if
> > > mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg() returns 0 (success)?
> > > 
> > 
> > This build is with cross function analysis enabled so Smatch looks for
> > that.
> > 
> > The problem is that the caller has to know if dev->mcu_ops->mcu_send_msg
> > is NULL or not because if it's non-NULL "skb" is not set.  Perhaps that
> > means it should be separated into two functions and we pick which one
> > to call depending on whether the pointer is set.
> > 
> > drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mcu.c
> >     54  int mt76_mcu_send_and_get_msg(struct mt76_dev *dev, int cmd, const void *data,
> >     55                                int len, bool wait_resp, struct sk_buff **ret_skb)
> >                                                                                 ^^^^^^^
> > This is the parameter.
> > 
> >     56  {
> >     57          struct sk_buff *skb;
> >     58  
> >     59          if (dev->mcu_ops->mcu_send_msg)
> >     60                  return dev->mcu_ops->mcu_send_msg(dev, cmd, data, len, wait_resp);
> > 
> > The function pointer doesn't set *ret_skb at all.
> > 
> >     61  
> >     62          skb = mt76_mcu_msg_alloc(dev, data, len);
> >     63          if (!skb)
> >     64                  return -ENOMEM;
> >     65  
> >     66          return mt76_mcu_skb_send_and_get_msg(dev, skb, cmd, wait_resp, ret_skb);
> > 
> > But this does.
> > 
> >     67  }
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter

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