Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_typec_vdm: Fix VDO copy

[Prashant Malani]

Hi Tzung-Bi,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 7:49 PM Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 06:26:26PM +0000, Prashant Malani wrote:
> > The usage of memcpy() affects the representation of the VDOs as they are
> > copied to the EC Host Command buffer. Specifically, all higher order
> > bits get dropped (for example: a VDO of 0x406 just gets copied as 0x6).
>
> memcpy() is byte-oriented; however, `vdo` is a pointer to u32.
>
> > Avoid this by explicitly copying each VDO in the array. The number of
> > VDOs generated by alternate mode drivers in their VDMs is almost always
> > just 1 (apart from the header) so this doesn't affect performance in a
> > meaningful way).
>
> Although the patch has applied, I am wondering if the following would be a
> better way to fix the issue:
>
> memcpy(&vdm_req.vdm_data[1], vdo, (cnt - 1) * sizeof(*vdo));

Yeah, that's right; I forgot that 'cnt' is "number of VDOs" and not
"number of bytes" :S

As I mentioned, in a vast majority of cases, the number of VDOs is just 1, so
I wouldn't bother and just leave this as it is (since there is no major benefit
apart from saving 1 line).