From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: set firmware_buf size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware()
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:01:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160221050128.GA563@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456027178.2906.196.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Hello,
On (02/20/16 22:59), Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 18:22 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Set firmware_buf->size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware() after
> > successful kernel_read_file_from_path(), otherwise assign_firmware_buf()
> > fails.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > index b8bc846..7cf41a5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > @@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ static int fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device *device,
> > }
> > dev_dbg(device, "direct-loading %s\n",
> > buf->fw_id);
> > + buf->size = size;
> > fw_finish_direct_load(device, buf);
> > break;
> > }
>
> Thanks, Sergey.
>
> Somehow this was dropped in v4.
sure, no prob.
if there is a way to fold this small fix into the original patch, then I wouldn't
mind at all to go with this option.
The other thing is that, the dmesg output has changed, and now it keeps the
log of unsuccessful ucode accesses from ->ucode_api_max to ->ucode_api_min:
[ 1.236866] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
[ 1.236874] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.236889] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
[ 1.236894] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237064] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
[ 1.237073] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237094] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
[ 1.237099] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237106] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237190] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode (-2)
[ 1.237195] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237201] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode (-2)
[ 1.237204] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1.237217] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode (-2)
[ 1.237221] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode failed with error -2
is this intentional? is there any reason to give this info back to user or
this is just a small regression?
-ss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-21 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 9:14 [PATCH] firmware: set firmware_buf size in kernel_read_file_from_path() Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-02-20 9:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-02-20 9:22 ` [PATCH] firmware: set firmware_buf size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware() Sergey Senozhatsky
[not found] ` <1456027178.2906.196.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-02-21 5:01 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2016-02-21 13:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-02-21 9:46 ` Ming Lei
2016-02-23 7:20 ` Bjorn Andersson
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