Re: [PATCH 0/6] platform/wmi: Use WMI driver core for size checks

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:32:31 +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:

> As suggested by Ilpo, the buffer-based WMI API should assist drivers
> in verifying the size of buffers received from WMI methods or blocks.
> This patch series implements this suggestion by allowing drivers to
> use the WMI driver core to automatically reject undersized buffers.
> 
> This avoids a memory allocation for undersized data and simplifies
> the size checking code in most WMI drivers. All patches except the
> last one have been tested using synthetic ACPI tables and appear to
> work just fine.
> 
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/6] platform/wmi: Add wmidev_invoke_procedure()
      commit: a6354b385fd18fcd7414052f8f6d13fd27521720
[2/6] platform/wmi: Convert drivers to use wmidev_invoke_procedure()
      commit: dd2dd86f44800911e71127d3f418ee3685197c41
[3/6] platform/wmi: Prepare to reject undersized unmarshalling results
      commit: 668aa6086f04d1bd63f27753d6c2d318c44ae306
[4/6] platform/wmi: Extend wmidev_invoke_method() to reject undersized data
      commit: c6f69ffec0aec2ac783f900b5c17ebff13c58f82
[5/6] platform/wmi: Extend wmidev_query_block() to reject undersized data
      commit: ceed8c1bcffab475facb6d4ee071464d01dd1865
[6/6] platform/wmi: Replace .no_notify_data with .min_event_size
      commit: a99543f1d8f92e11ff3cb2760964490b04864e33

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