2022-03-24 23:14:45

by Damien Le Moal

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/21] ata: libahci_platform: Sanity check the DT child nodes number

On 3/24/22 09:16, Serge Semin wrote:
> Having greater than (AHCI_MAX_PORTS = 32) ports detected isn't that
> critical from the further AHCI-platform initialization point of view since
> exceeding the ports upper limit will cause allocating more resources than
> will be used afterwards. But detecting too many child DT-nodes doesn't
> seem right since it's very unlikely to have it on an ordinary platform. In
> accordance with the AHCI specification there can't be more than 32 ports
> implemented at least due to having the CAP.NP field of 4 bits wide and the
> PI register of dword size. Thus if such situation is found the DTB must
> have been corrupted and the data read from it shouldn't be reliable. Let's
> consider that as an erroneous situation and halt further resources
> allocation.
>
> Note it's logically more correct to have the nports set only after the
> initialization value is checked for being sane. So while at it let's make
> sure nports is assigned with a correct value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
> index 4fb9629c03ab..845042295b97 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
> @@ -470,15 +470,21 @@ struct ahci_host_priv *ahci_platform_get_resources(struct platform_device *pdev,
> }
> }
>
> - hpriv->nports = child_nodes = of_get_child_count(dev->of_node);
> -
> /*
> - * If no sub-node was found, we still need to set nports to
> - * one in order to be able to use the
> + * Too many sub-nodes most likely means having something wrong with
> + * firmware. If no sub-node was found, we still need to set nports
> + * to one in order to be able to use the
> * ahci_platform_[en|dis]able_[phys|regulators] functions.
> */
> - if (!child_nodes)
> + child_nodes = of_get_child_count(dev->of_node);
> + if (child_nodes > AHCI_MAX_PORTS) {
> + rc = -EINVAL;
> + goto err_out;
> + } else if (!child_nodes) {

No need for "else" after a return.

> hpriv->nports = 1;
> + } else {
> + hpriv->nports = child_nodes;
> + }
>
> hpriv->phys = devm_kcalloc(dev, hpriv->nports, sizeof(*hpriv->phys), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!hpriv->phys) {


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research


2022-03-25 15:36:40

by Sergey Shtylyov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/21] ata: libahci_platform: Sanity check the DT child nodes number

On 3/24/22 4:40 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:

>> Having greater than (AHCI_MAX_PORTS = 32) ports detected isn't that
>> critical from the further AHCI-platform initialization point of view since
>> exceeding the ports upper limit will cause allocating more resources than
>> will be used afterwards. But detecting too many child DT-nodes doesn't
>> seem right since it's very unlikely to have it on an ordinary platform. In
>> accordance with the AHCI specification there can't be more than 32 ports
>> implemented at least due to having the CAP.NP field of 4 bits wide and the
>> PI register of dword size. Thus if such situation is found the DTB must
>> have been corrupted and the data read from it shouldn't be reliable. Let's
>> consider that as an erroneous situation and halt further resources
>> allocation.
>>
>> Note it's logically more correct to have the nports set only after the
>> initialization value is checked for being sane. So while at it let's make
>> sure nports is assigned with a correct value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
>> index 4fb9629c03ab..845042295b97 100644
>> --- a/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
>> +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c
>> @@ -470,15 +470,21 @@ struct ahci_host_priv *ahci_platform_get_resources(struct platform_device *pdev,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> - hpriv->nports = child_nodes = of_get_child_count(dev->of_node);
>> -
>> /*
>> - * If no sub-node was found, we still need to set nports to
>> - * one in order to be able to use the
>> + * Too many sub-nodes most likely means having something wrong with
>> + * firmware. If no sub-node was found, we still need to set nports
>> + * to one in order to be able to use the
>> * ahci_platform_[en|dis]able_[phys|regulators] functions.
>> */
>> - if (!child_nodes)
>> + child_nodes = of_get_child_count(dev->of_node);
>> + if (child_nodes > AHCI_MAX_PORTS) {
>> + rc = -EINVAL;
>> + goto err_out;
>> + } else if (!child_nodes) {
>
> No need for "else" after a return.

You meant *goto*? :-)

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MBR, Sergey