Re: [PATCH v3 04/24] powerpc/secvar: Handle format string in the consumer

[Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>]

On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 11:17 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 4:10 PM AEST, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> > From: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
> > 
> > The code that handles the format string in secvar-sysfs.c is
> > entirely
> > OPAL specific, so create a new "format" op in secvar_operations to
> > make
> > the secvar code more generic.  No functional change.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > v2: Use sysfs_emit() instead of sprintf() (gregkh)
> > 
> > v3: Enforce format string size limit (ruscur)
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h            |  3 +++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c           | 23 ++++------------
> > --
> >  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-secvar.c | 25
> > ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> > index 07ba36f868a7..8b6475589120 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/secvar.h
> > @@ -11,12 +11,15 @@
> >  #include <linux/types.h>
> >  #include <linux/errno.h>
> >  
> > +#define SECVAR_MAX_FORMAT_LEN  30 // max length of string returned
> > by ->format()
> > +
> >  extern const struct secvar_operations *secvar_ops;
> >  
> >  struct secvar_operations {
> >         int (*get)(const char *key, u64 key_len, u8 *data, u64
> > *data_size);
> >         int (*get_next)(const char *key, u64 *key_len, u64
> > keybufsize);
> >         int (*set)(const char *key, u64 key_len, u8 *data, u64
> > data_size);
> > +       ssize_t (*format)(char *buf);
> >  };
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_SECURE_BOOT
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> > index 462cacc0ca60..d3858eedd72c 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/secvar-sysfs.c
> > @@ -21,26 +21,13 @@ static struct kset *secvar_kset;
> >  static ssize_t format_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct
> > kobj_attribute *attr,
> >                            char *buf)
> >  {
> > -       ssize_t rc = 0;
> > -       struct device_node *node;
> > -       const char *format;
> > -
> > -       node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "ibm,secvar-
> > backend");
> > -       if (!of_device_is_available(node)) {
> > -               rc = -ENODEV;
> > -               goto out;
> > -       }
> > +       char tmp[SECVAR_MAX_FORMAT_LEN];
> > +       ssize_t len = secvar_ops->format(tmp);
> >  
> > -       rc = of_property_read_string(node, "format", &format);
> > -       if (rc)
> > -               goto out;
> > +       if (len <= 0)
> > +               return -EIO;
> 
> AFAIKS this does have a functional change, it loses the return value.
> Why not return len if it is < 0, and -EIO if len == 0?

In v2 mpe suggested the following:

   I'm not sure you should pass that raw error back to sysfs. Some of
   the
   values could be confusing, eg. if you return -EINVAL it looks like a
   parameter to the read() syscall was invalid. Might be better to just
   return -EIO.
   
Following that advice, I don't think we should return something other
than -EIO, but we should at least pr_err() to document the error - this
isn't something that should ever fail.

> 
> Thanks,
> Nick