Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] regulator: core: validate selector against linear_min_sel

[<Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com>]

On 24.11.2020 15:41, Jon Hunter wrote:
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> On 24/11/2020 11:14, Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com wrote:
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>> I would say that a solution would be to have a new helper to retrieve the
>> linear_min_sel (e.g. regulator_min_sel()) and use this for all the
>> consumers of regulator_list_voltage() and the other APIs that patch
>> "regulator: core: validate selector against linear_min_sel" has changed
>> (regulator_list_voltage_table(), regulator_set_voltage_time()). With this
>> change the loop in find_vdd_map_entry_exact() should be b/w
>> regulator_min_sel() and regulator_count_voltages().
>>
>> Maybe Mark has a better solution for this.
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> By the way, I don't think that Tegra is alone here. I see some other
> drivers doing some similar things [0][1][2] and so I am wondering if
> this is going to be a problem for a few drivers.
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As far as I can tell most of the regulator_list_voltage() consumers are
checking the return value against a [min_uV, max_uV] range or if the return
value is a negative error code or zero. The consumers are looking a
selector that respect the above rule for the entire [0,
regulator_count_voltages()] range (I have to double check for the rest of
functions modified by my patch). In case of clk-dfll.c the
find_vdd_map_entry_exact() returns if it finds the 1st invalid selector:

	n_voltages = regulator_count_voltages(td->vdd_reg);
	for (i = 0; i < n_voltages; i++) {
		reg_uV = regulator_list_voltage(td->vdd_reg, i);
		if (reg_uV < 0)
			break;

		reg_volt_id = reg_uV / td->soc->alignment.step_uv;

		if (align_step == reg_volt_id)
			return i;
	}

Maybe it would be better if the loop continues in case reg_uV is negative
or zero? (the zero case is good for this function as it will make the
(align_step == reg_volt_id) to be false). But as Mark said in the previous
email, there could be regulators with gaps in between min_sel and n_voltages.

With the previous code it seems it worked because the
regulator_list_voltage() calls the as3722's list_voltage which is
regulator_list_voltage_linear() which checks the selector against
min_selector and returns zero in case the selector is lower than the
min_selector. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, I will prepare a fix for my previous patch to return zero in case
the regulator_count_voltages() receives an invalid selector. That should
also fix the case with this driver.

Thank you,
Claudiu

> Jon
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> [0]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/mmc/core/regulator.c#n61
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/cpufreq/s3c2416-cpufreq.c#n263
> [2]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/leds/leds-regulator.c#n29
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