From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
"gary@garyguo.net" <gary@garyguo.net>,
Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
"nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev" <nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev>,
Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
"mcgrof@kernel.org" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"dakr@kernel.org" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org" <rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
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"ojeda@kernel.org" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"russ.weight@linux.dev" <russ.weight@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 02:56:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09d1fd87272e7c7dee79d1e0841f49de76ccd82b.camel@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DJR9ZP56YXX9.P8U6V298X5RW@nvidia.com>
On Mon, 2026-07-06 at 15:31 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> > I forgot to update get_bytes() to return an error if the value is empty. That should
> > address a lot
> > of potential issues, including the ones that Sashiko raised.
>
> The spec says that
>
> Lengths of zero are allowed and indicate that the tag is a boolean.
>
> though, so we probably don't want to return an error in that case.
Just don't call get_bytes() if you expect it to have no value. I can add a get_bool() or
is_true() function to handle booleans, but there are no users.
Returning error on length==0 simplifies a lot of code on the caller side.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 19:27 [PATCH v3 0/7] Transition Nova Core to TLV firmare images Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf() Timur Tabi
2026-07-03 2:51 ` Alvin Sun
2026-07-03 3:06 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-03 13:51 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-06 6:30 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-06 10:50 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-07 2:54 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-07 5:10 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:45 ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-07 2:56 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2026-07-07 5:13 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] gpu: nova-core: transition booter_load to TLV images Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gen_bootloader " Timur Tabi
2026-07-06 6:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] gpu: nova-core: transition fsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] gpu: nova-core: update firmware module info for " Timur Tabi
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