Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] nvmem: core: fix bit offsets of more than one byte

[Akhil P Oommen]

On 1/4/2025 11:49 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> If the NVMEM specifies a stride to access data, reading particular cell
> might require bit offset that is bigger than one byte. Rework NVMEM core
> code to support bit offsets of more than 8 bits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/nvmem/core.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index d6494dfc20a7324bde6415776dcabbb0bfdd334b..c0af43a37195c3869507a203b370615309aeee67 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -834,7 +834,9 @@ static int nvmem_add_cells_from_dt(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, struct device_nod
>  		if (addr && len == (2 * sizeof(u32))) {
>  			info.bit_offset = be32_to_cpup(addr++);
>  			info.nbits = be32_to_cpup(addr);
> -			if (info.bit_offset >= BITS_PER_BYTE || info.nbits < 1) {
> +			if (info.bit_offset >= BITS_PER_BYTE * info.bytes ||
> +			    info.nbits < 1 ||
> +			    info.bit_offset + info.nbits >= BITS_PER_BYTE * info.bytes) {

Should it be ">" check instead of ">=" check here?
For eg: bit_offset = 7, nbits = 1 and info.bytes = 1 is valid, isn't it?

-Akhil

>  				dev_err(dev, "nvmem: invalid bits on %pOF\n", child);
>  				of_node_put(child);
>  				return -EINVAL;
> @@ -1627,21 +1629,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmem_cell_put);
>  static void nvmem_shift_read_buffer_in_place(struct nvmem_cell_entry *cell, void *buf)
>  {
>  	u8 *p, *b;
> -	int i, extra, bit_offset = cell->bit_offset;
> +	int i, extra, bytes_offset;
> +	int bit_offset = cell->bit_offset;
>  
>  	p = b = buf;
> -	if (bit_offset) {
> +
> +	bytes_offset = bit_offset / BITS_PER_BYTE;
> +	b += bytes_offset;
> +	bit_offset %= BITS_PER_BYTE;
> +
> +	if (bit_offset % BITS_PER_BYTE) {
>  		/* First shift */
> -		*b++ >>= bit_offset;
> +		*p = *b++ >> bit_offset;
>  
>  		/* setup rest of the bytes if any */
>  		for (i = 1; i < cell->bytes; i++) {
>  			/* Get bits from next byte and shift them towards msb */
> -			*p |= *b << (BITS_PER_BYTE - bit_offset);
> +			*p++ |= *b << (BITS_PER_BYTE - bit_offset);
>  
> -			p = b;
> -			*b++ >>= bit_offset;
> +			*p = *b++ >> bit_offset;
>  		}
> +	} else if (p != b) {
> +		memmove(p, b, cell->bytes - bytes_offset);
> +		p += cell->bytes - 1;
>  	} else {
>  		/* point to the msb */
>  		p += cell->bytes - 1;
>