Re: [PATCH] nvmem: Enforce nvmem stride in the sysfs interface

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 29/05/2020 00:53, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> The 'struct nvmem_config' has a stride attribute that specifies the
> needed alignment for accesses into the nvmem.  This is used in
> nvmem_cell_info_to_nvmem_cell() but not in the sysfs read/write
> functions.  If the alignment is important in one place it's important
> everywhere, so let's add enforcement.
>
> For now we'll consider it totally invalid to access with the wrong
> alignment.  We could relax this in the read case where we could just
> read some extra bytes and throw them away.  Relaxing it in the write
> case seems harder (and less safe?) since we'd have to read some data
> first and then write it back.  To keep it symmetric we'll just
> disallow it in both cases.
>
> Reported-by: Ravi Kumar Bokka <rbokka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>   drivers/nvmem/core.c | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index 05c6ae4b0b97..1c0e7953f90d 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c


Thanks Doug, This was something I wanted to streamline on all the code 
paths, but never got to it!

Applied Thanks,
srini

> @@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ static ssize_t bin_attr_nvmem_read(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
>   	if (pos >= nvmem->size)
>   		return 0;
>   
> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED(pos, nvmem->stride))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>   	if (count < nvmem->word_size)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
> @@ -148,6 +151,9 @@ static ssize_t bin_attr_nvmem_write(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
>   	if (pos >= nvmem->size)
>   		return -EFBIG;
>   
> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED(pos, nvmem->stride))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>   	if (count < nvmem->word_size)
>   		return -EINVAL;
>