Re: [PATCH 1/2] dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid

[Pali RohÃr]

On Friday 25 December 2015 02:23:04 Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > According to Dell WMI document mentioned in ML dicussion archived
> > at http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg07220.html
> > OS should check Dell WMI descriptor structure. Structure also
> > provide Dell WMI interface version which is used later.
> 
> I will rebase my big series on top of this.  It'll give me a good
> excuse to test that I got the probe ordering right.  (The code is
> explicitly intended to support use cases like this, and now I'll have
> a real-world test for it.)  I'll also test this in a bit.

Ok!

> > +MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:"DELL_DESCRIPTOR_GUID);
> 
> I don't think this is necessary.  The driver will only work if both
> wmi devices and, hence, modaliases are present, so there's no need to
> cause just one or the other to trigger dell-wmi autoloading.

Maybe now when you are working on big WMI patch series is time to change 
modalias support in WMI to support AND-conjunction (&&) on WMI aliases, 
not just OR (one alias match).

Something like: load dell-wmi.ko driver if system provides both WMI 
GUIDs.

> > +/**
> 
> > + * Descriptor buffer is 128 byte long and contains:
> This isn't kerneldoc format, so I think this should just be "/*".
> 

Ok, I will fix this in next version.

> > +       if (obj->buffer.length != 128) {
> > +               pr_err("Dell descriptor buffer has invalid length
> > (%d)\n", +                       obj->buffer.length);
> > +               kfree(obj);
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> > +       }
> 
> I would advocate for being more permissive: a buffer that is actually
> too short for the fields we need would result in -EINVAL, but a
> buffer that isn't 128 bytes would just be a warning and not cause
> module load to fail.
> 
> --Andy

Sounds good, I will change this part.

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Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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