Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] tpm_crb: expand struct crb_control_area to struct crb_regs

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Sun Oct 09 2016 - 05:41:39 EST


On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:15:09AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > + ctrl = crb_map_res(dev, priv, &io_res, buf->control_address,
> > + sizeof(struct crb_regs) -
> > + offsetof(struct crb_regs, ctrl_req));
> > + if (IS_ERR(ctrl))
> > + return PTR_ERR(ctrl);
> > +
> > + /* The control area always overrlaps IO memory mapped from the ACPI
> > + * object with CRB start only devices. Thus, this is perfectly safe.
> > + */
> > + priv->regs = (void *)((unsigned long)ctrl -
> > + offsetof(struct crb_regs, ctrl_req));
>
> Hum. No, this makes bad assumptions about the structure of iomapping.
>
> The map itself needs to be done with the adjustment:
>
> ctrl = crb_map_res(dev, priv, &io_res, buf->control_address -
> offsetof(struct crb_regs, ctrl_req),
> sizeof(struct crb_regs));

That would be wrong address for the control area as it does not start
from the beginning of CRB registers.

> .. and nothing actually proves that control_address follows anything
> in the driver, so this seems like a terrifying blind assumption, but
> everything about the iomap in this ACPI binding seems totally bonkers
> so that is in good company I guess.

There are basically two kinds of CRB devices in the wild:

1. ACPI start devices that use DMA
2. CRB MMIO devices

For 1 you always iomap control area. For 2 the ACPI object given buffer
covers the control area.

I think the crb_map_io and crb_map_res are too generic. Better way to do
things would be to validate that assumptions for these two cases hold.

> .. and the comment says this only holds for 'crb start only' devices,
> but the code doesn't actually act differently based on what sort of
> device we have..
>
> Your commit message also seems to imply the new registers are only on
> newer hardware, but nothing seems to check for that before acessing
> them? Confusing.

That's why there's this thing called RFC :)

> Jason

/Jarkko