Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] i2c: smbus: only limit max banks to eight

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 05.07.2024 07:55, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Jul 4, 2024 23:57:36 Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>:
> 
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:48:11PM GMT, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>>> If there are less than eight slots in total,
>>> only probe those.
>>> Now the code matches the comment "..., then limit slots to 8".
>>>
>>> Fixes: 8821c8376993 ("i2c: smbus: Prepare i2c_register_spd for usage on muxed segments")
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>>
>> I don't see the need for the Fixes here... was there a bug that
>> has been fixed?
> 
> More addresses are probed than are possible.

Later in the function there's the following:

for (n = 0; n < slot_count && dimm_count; n++) {

With dimm_count being decremented with each instantiated DIMM module.
If a system has less than 8 slots, then it also has less than 8 modules
and we finish once all modules have been instantiated.
Having said that I don't see any excess probing.

> Which is a change from the old behavior and also
> contradicts the comment.
> IMO it's a bug. Probably not a big one and I'm not sure if user-observable.
> Surely nothing for stable.
> 
> But I'm not hung up on it and will drop that tag in the next revision.