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

[Armin Wolf]

Am 10.04.26 um 18:28 schrieb 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.

Thank you :)

> 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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>   i.