From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: "Prasanth Ksr" <prasanth.ksr@dell.com>,
"Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Clean up security buffer helpers
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:40:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330144034.478801-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
In calculate_security_buffer(), call strlen() once and use ALIGN() to
round up to an even size.
In populate_security_buffer(), also avoid recomputing strlen(), rename
the u32 pointer from 'seclen' to 'seclenp' to avoid confusion with the
new length variable, and drop the memcpy() guard since calling it with
size 0 is a no-op and therefore safe.
Use 'const char *' for the read-only source string in both helpers.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
.../dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h | 4 ++--
.../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c | 20 ++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h
index 817ee7ba07ca..5278a93fdaf7 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ void exit_bios_attr_set_interface(void);
int init_bios_attr_set_interface(void);
int map_wmi_error(int error_code);
size_t calculate_string_buffer(const char *str);
-size_t calculate_security_buffer(char *authentication);
-void populate_security_buffer(char *buffer, char *authentication);
+size_t calculate_security_buffer(const char *authentication);
+void populate_security_buffer(char *buffer, const char *authentication);
ssize_t populate_string_buffer(char *buffer, size_t buffer_len, const char *str);
int set_new_password(const char *password_type, const char *new);
int init_bios_attr_pass_interface(void);
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
index 9dddab6c9397..aba9ef2cfc03 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
@@ -72,13 +72,9 @@ size_t calculate_string_buffer(const char *str)
*
* Currently only supported type is Admin password
*/
-size_t calculate_security_buffer(char *authentication)
+size_t calculate_security_buffer(const char *authentication)
{
- if (strlen(authentication) > 0) {
- return (sizeof(u32) * 2) + strlen(authentication) +
- strlen(authentication) % 2;
- }
- return sizeof(u32) * 2;
+ return sizeof(u32) * 2 + ALIGN(strlen(authentication), 2);
}
/**
@@ -88,18 +84,18 @@ size_t calculate_security_buffer(char *authentication)
*
* Currently only supported type is PLAIN TEXT
*/
-void populate_security_buffer(char *buffer, char *authentication)
+void populate_security_buffer(char *buffer, const char *authentication)
{
+ size_t seclen = strlen(authentication);
char *auth = buffer + sizeof(u32) * 2;
u32 *sectype = (u32 *) buffer;
- u32 *seclen = sectype + 1;
+ u32 *seclenp = sectype + 1;
- *sectype = strlen(authentication) > 0 ? 1 : 0;
- *seclen = strlen(authentication);
+ *sectype = !!seclen;
+ *seclenp = seclen;
/* plain text */
- if (strlen(authentication) > 0)
- memcpy(auth, authentication, *seclen);
+ memcpy(auth, authentication, seclen);
}
/**
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