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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/11] Add platform_has_feature()
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:59:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314085905.GE9841@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513AB457.9000409@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 10:02:31PM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> This patch adds a platform_has_feature() function to check features selected
> by firmware and reported via the device tree 'ibm,architecture-vec5'
> property. As part of this the #defines used for the architecture vector are
> moved to prom.h and re-defined such that the vector 5 options have the vector
> index and the feature bits encoded into them. This allows for callers of
> platform_has_feature() to pass in a single pre-defined value.

One other comment...

> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV)
> +bool platform_has_feature(unsigned int feature)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *chosen;
> +	const char *vec5;
> +	bool has_option;
> +
> +	chosen = of_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
> +	if (!chosen)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	vec5 = of_get_property(chosen, "ibm,architecture-vec-5", NULL);
> +	has_option = vec5 && (vec5[OV5_INDX(feature)] & OV5_FEAT(feature));

You access vec5[index] without checking that the vector is at least
index+1 bytes long, according to either the length byte at the
beginning of the vector, or the total length of the property.
Checking both would be a good idea.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-09  3:56 [PATCH 0/11] NUMA CPU Reconfiguration using PRRN Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  3:59 ` [PATCH 1/11] Expose pseries devicetree_update() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  8:49   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09  4:00 ` [PATCH2/11] Add PRRN Event Handler Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  8:51   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-19 18:01     ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:01 ` [PATCH 3/11] Move architecture vector definitions to prom.h Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  8:52   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09  4:02 ` [PATCH 4/11] Add platform_has_feature() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  8:56   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-19 18:03     ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  8:59   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2013-03-19 18:05     ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 13:42   ` Michael Ellerman
2013-03-19 18:15     ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-22  3:56       ` Michael Ellerman
2013-03-09  4:03 ` [PATCH 5/11] Update numa.c to use platform_has_feature() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:04 ` [PATCH 6/11] Update CPU maps Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:05 ` [PATCH 7/11] Use stop machine to update cpu maps Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:07 ` [PATCH 8/11] Update numa cpu vdso info Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14  9:02   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09  4:08 ` [PATCH 9/11] Re-enable Virtual Private Home Node capabilities Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] Enable PRRN Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09  4:10 ` [PATCH 11/11] Add /proc interface to control topology updates Nathan Fontenot

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