Re: [PATCH V3] greybus: gb-beagleplay: Ensure le for values in transport

[Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325@gmail.com>]

On 12/4/23 19:42, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 06:40:06PM +0530, Ayush Singh wrote:
>> Ensure that the following values are little-endian:
>> - header->pad (which is used for cport_id)
>> - header->size
>>
>> Fixes: ec558bbfea67 ("greybus: Add BeaglePlay Linux Driver")
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311072329.Xogj7hGW-lkp@intel.com/
>> Signed-off-by: Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> V3:
>> - Fix endiness while sending.
>> V2: https://lists.linaro.org/archives/list/greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org/thread/L53UN5ROSG4M6OE7CU5Y3L5F44T6ZPCC/
>> - Ensure endianess for header->pad
>> V1: https://lists.linaro.org/archives/list/greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org/message/K7UJ6PEAWBLNDMHLT2IO6OP5LQISHRUO/
>>
>>   drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c | 9 +++++----
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c b/drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c
>> index 43318c1993ba..8b21c3e1e612 100644
>> --- a/drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c
>> +++ b/drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c
>> @@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ static void hdlc_rx_greybus_frame(struct gb_beagleplay *bg, u8 *buf, u16 len)
>>   	memcpy(&cport_id, hdr->pad, sizeof(cport_id));
>>   
>>   	dev_dbg(&bg->sd->dev, "Greybus Operation %u type %X cport %u status %u received",
>> -		hdr->operation_id, hdr->type, cport_id, hdr->result);
>> +		hdr->operation_id, hdr->type, le16_to_cpu(cport_id), hdr->result);
>>   
>> -	greybus_data_rcvd(bg->gb_hd, cport_id, buf, len);
>> +	greybus_data_rcvd(bg->gb_hd, le16_to_cpu(cport_id), buf, len);
> This looks broken; a quick against mainline (and linux-next) check shows
> cport_id to be u16.
>
> I think you want get_unaligned_le16() or something instead of that
> memcpy() above.
Thanks, will do.
>
> But that just begs the question: why has this driver repurposed the pad
> bytes like this? The header still says that these shall be set to zero.

So, the reason is multiplexing. The original gbridge setup used to do 
this, so I followed it when I moved gbridge to the coprocessor (during 
GSoC).

Using the padding for storing cport information allows not having to 
wrap the message in some other format at the two transport layers (UART 
and TCP sockets) beagle connect is using.This also seems better than 
trying to do something bespoke, especially since the padding bytes are 
not being used for anything else.

The initial spec was for project Ara (modular smartphone), so the 
current use for IoT is significantly different from the initial goals of 
the protocol. Maybe a future version of the spec can be more focused on 
IoT, but that will probably only happen once it has proven somewhat 
useful in this space.

Ayush Singh