Hi,
On 06-05-19 12:20, Victor Bravo wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06-05-19 11:06, Victor Bravo wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> On 05-05-19 17:03, Victor Bravo wrote:
>>>>> Sanitize DMI strings in brcmfmac driver to make resulting filenames
>>>>> contain only safe characters. This version replaces all non-printable
>>>>> characters incl. delete (0-31, 127-255), spaces and slashes with
>>>>> underscores.
>>>>>
>>>>> This change breaks backward compatibility, but adds control over strings
>>>>> passed to firmware loader and compatibility with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
>>>>> which doesn't support spaces in filenames.
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes from v1: don't revert fresh commit by someone else
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Victor Bravo <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the patch, but I'm sorry to say this patch cannot go in as is,
>>>> because it will break existing systems.
>>>>
>>>> If you look here:
>>>>
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/brcm
>>>>
>>>> You will see a file named: "brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt" there, which
>>>> has a space in its name (and which works fine).
>>>
>>> Thanks for the updates. Spaces are actually a problem as files with spaces
>>> don't work when built-in with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE (which is used with
>>> non-modular kernel containing brcmfmac driver).
>>>
>>> If the DMI string contains slashes, they will cause problems
>>> for obvious reasons too.
>>
>> Right, as said I'm fine with sanitizing the names, so dropping e.g. / chars,
>> but replacing space with _ will cause wifi to stop working on Onda V80 Plus devices and
>> we have a clear no regressions policy in the kernel.
>
> Please keep in mind that dropping slashes and non-printable characters
> might be a regression too, as some users may already be using
> intermediate directories or filenames with tabs etc. if their DMI
> strings contain these. If such users exist, they will have to rename
> their nvram files anyway.
I consider it very unlikely that such users exist OTOH the Onda V80 PLus
nvram file is actually in linux-firmware upstream, so that e.g. Fedora 30
has working wifi OOTB on the V80 Plus, if we go with your proposal to
also replace spaces, then users with a V80 Plus will all of a sudden have
their wifi stop working.
If Kalle and Arend are in favor of including space in the "bad character"
list then at a minimum we must first get a patch added to linux-firmware
adding an ONDA-V80_PLUS.txt symlink to the ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt file.
> On the other hand, removing just slashes and non-printable characters
> (i.e. (*dst < 0x20) || (dst == '/') || (dst == 0x7f)) would allow
> the sanitize function to the bit array and go with hardcoded conditions
> (especially if those are final and won't need further adjustments in
> set of allowed characters
If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe and also
disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere, specifically
':' and ','.
Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
matching:
brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices with unsuitable
DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get a symlink
in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users, but it definitely has some.
Regards,
Hans
>
>>>> I'm fine with doing some sanitizing of the strings, but replacing spaces with _
>>>> breaks existing use-cases (will cause a regression for them) and a space is absolutely
>>>> a valid character in a filename and the firmware-loader can deal with this just fine.
>>>>
>>>> If the code for building firmwares into the kernel cannot deal with spaces then IMHO
>>>> that code should be fixed instead. Have you looked into fixing that?
>>>
>>> Yes, but updating CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE to support spaces because of
>>> this looks much like
>>
>> <snip off-topic remark>
>>
>>> Do you really think it's a good idea to propose that in
>>> this case?
>>
>> I think expecting spaces in filenames to just work is quite reasonable, after all
>> its been a long time since we've left DOS-es 8.3 filename limitations.
>>
>> Have you actually looked at how hard it would be to make filenames with spaces work
>> with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE ?
>>
>> No matter how you spin it, the space problem is a CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE bug, not an
>> issue with the brcmfmac code.
>
> Well CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE is defined to use space as filename
> separator, so I don't really dare to call that a bug. Also brcmfmac
> seems to be only driver requiring support for spaces etc. in firmware
> file names, and this requirement seems to be quite fresh.
>
> So to me the proper way to fix this via CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE seems to
> be
>
> 1) wait some time until brcfmac's fw filenames with spaces become
> de-facto standard and distros are literally full of these.
>
> 2) after this happens, propose update of CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE to
> support spaces in filenames, arguing with status quo which coming from 1)
>
> Unfortunately I feel more like a programmer and this seems more like
> politics, so I can promise participation in the wait part only right
> now.
>
>>>> As for your T100HA example from earlier in this thread, the brcmfmac driver now
>>>> also supports getting the firmware from a special EFI nvram variable, which the
>>>> T100HA sets, so you do not need to provide a nvram file on the T100HA and things
>>>> will still work.
>>>
>>> I don't really get this. Can you please suggest how do I make the driver
>>> use something different than "brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt" or
>>> "brcmfmac43340-sdio.ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.-T100HAN.txt" on T100HAN?
>>
>> If you leave out either file, then with a recent kernel you should see this
>> brcm_info trigger:
>>
>> brcmf_info("Using nvram EFI variable\n");
>>
>> So you should see this message when you do:
>>
>> dmesg | grep "Using nvram EFI variable"
>>
>> And the wifi on the T100HAN should just work, without needing to do any
>> manual config / provide an nvram file in anyway.
>>
>> I always strive to make hardware just work with Linux and any UEFI x86 machine
>> using brcmfmac which provides the necessary nvram EFI variable in its firmware
>> should now just work when booting say a Fedora 30 livecd.
>>
>> The EFI nvram var support has been tested successfully on the following models:
>>
>> Acer Iconia Tab8 w1-8
>> Acer One 10
>> Asus T100CHI
>> Asus T100HA
>> Asus T100TA
>> Asus T200TA
>> Lenovo Mixx 2 8
>> Lenovo Yoga2 tablet 10
>
> Thanks! Wasn't aware of this, will try in the evening.
>
> Regards,
> v.
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
>>>>> index 7535cb0d4ac0..84571e09b465 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
>>>>> @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@
>>>>> /* The DMI data never changes so we can use a static buf for this */
>>>>> static char dmi_board_type[128];
>>>>> +/* Array of 128 bits representing 7-bit characters allowed in DMI strings. */
>>>>> +static unsigned char brcmf_dmi_allowed_chars[] = {
>>>>> + 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xfe, 0x7f, 0xff, 0xff,
>>>>> + 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x7f
>>>>> +};
>>>>> +
>>>>> +#define BRCMF_DMI_SAFE_CHAR '_'
>>>>> +
>>>>> struct brcmf_dmi_data {
>>>>> u32 chip;
>>>>> u32 chiprev;
>>>>> @@ -99,6 +107,15 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id dmi_platform_data[] = {
>>>>> {}
>>>>> };
>>>>> +void brcmf_dmi_sanitize(char *dst, const unsigned char *allowed, char safe)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + while (*dst) {
>>>>> + if ((*dst < 0) || !(allowed[*dst / 8] & (1 << (*dst % 8))))
>>>>
>>>> At a first look I have no clue what this code is doing and I honestly do not feel
>>>> like figuring it out, this is clever, but IMHO not readable.
>>>
>>> Understood. The cluless part actually checks corresponding bit
>>> in allowed array, which is a bit mask describing what characters
>>> are allowed or not.
>>>
>>>> Please just write this as if (*dst < 0x21 || (*dst > foo && < bar) || etc,
>>>> so that a human can actually see in one look what the code is doing.
>>>>
>>>> You may want to wait for Arend to give his opinion before changing this though,
>>>> maybe he likes the code as is.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that that should be < 0x20 of course, since we need to preserve spaces
>>>> as is to avoid a regression.
>>>
>>> This has been already discussed, spaces are a problem. There even was an
>>> opinion that adding the code that doesn't bother with spaces and slashes
>>> might be a regression as well.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> v.
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Hans
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> + *dst = safe;
>>>>> + dst++;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>> void brcmf_dmi_probe(struct brcmf_mp_device *settings, u32 chip, u32 chiprev)
>>>>> {
>>>>> const struct dmi_system_id *match;
>>>>> @@ -126,6 +143,9 @@ void brcmf_dmi_probe(struct brcmf_mp_device *settings, u32 chip, u32 chiprev)
>>>>> if (sys_vendor && product_name) {
>>>>> snprintf(dmi_board_type, sizeof(dmi_board_type), "%s-%s",
>>>>> sys_vendor, product_name);
>>>>> + brcmf_dmi_sanitize(dmi_board_type,
>>>>> + brcmf_dmi_allowed_chars,
>>>>> + BRCMF_DMI_SAFE_CHAR);
>>>>> settings->board_type = dmi_board_type;
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
> If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe and also
> disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere, specifically
> ':' and ','.
>
> Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
> matching:
>
> brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
> brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
> brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
>
> The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices with unsuitable
> DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
>
> So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get a symlink
> in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
>
> Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
>
> Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
> but it definitely has some.
To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other hand we
do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so simple. I
vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long run,
but don't know what Arend thinks.
Maybe we could do some kind of fallback mechanism, like first trying the
sanitised filename and if that's not found then we try the old filename
with spaces? And if that old filename works we print a big fat warning
that the user should update the file and that the old "filename with
spaces" support is going away soon?
--
Kalle Valo
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:26:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe and also
> > disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere, specifically
> > ':' and ','.
> >
> > Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
> > matching:
> >
> > brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
> > brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
> > brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
> >
> > The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices with unsuitable
> > DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
> >
> > So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get a symlink
> > in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
> >
> > Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
> >
> > Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
> > but it definitely has some.
>
> To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other hand we
> do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so simple. I
> vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long run,
> but don't know what Arend thinks.
I have found a fresh judicate on this:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221
It seems clear that we have to support at least spaces for some time
(maybe wih separate config option which will be deprecated but on by
defaut until old files are considered gone).
> Maybe we could do some kind of fallback mechanism, like first trying the
> sanitised filename and if that's not found then we try the old filename
> with spaces? And if that old filename works we print a big fat warning
> that the user should update the file and that the old "filename with
> spaces" support is going away soon?
In case of parametric sanitizing function, this might be achievable
by sanitizing using "final" character set first, and falling back
to "compatible" character set on file not found. So this may actually
bring another requirement on the sanitizing function.
Regards,
v.
Hi,
On 06-05-19 17:24, Victor Bravo wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:26:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe and also
>>> disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere, specifically
>>> ':' and ','.
>>>
>>> Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
>>> matching:
>>>
>>> brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
>>> brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
>>> brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
>>>
>>> The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices with unsuitable
>>> DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
>>>
>>> So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get a symlink
>>> in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
>>>
>>> Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
>>>
>>> Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
>>> but it definitely has some.
>>
>> To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other hand we
>> do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so simple. I
>> vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long run,
>> but don't know what Arend thinks.
>
> I have found a fresh judicate on this:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221
>
> It seems clear that we have to support at least spaces for some time
> (maybe wih separate config option which will be deprecated but on by
> defaut until old files are considered gone).
Ah that issue, well that is not really comparable in that case a lot of
peoples setups were completely broken by that commit and it was a
quite surprising behavior change in a userspace facing API.
The nvram loading path already does 2 tries, I really don't want to
unnecessary complicate it with a third try.
The Onda V80 Plus is a X86 based Windows / Android dual boot tablet,
as said before I do not expect a ton of users to be running regular
Linux on it.
Given Kalle's clear preference for getting rid of the spaces lets
just do that. But first we must get a symlink added to linux-firmware
using the name with the _, newer kernels requiring a newer linux-firmware
to match is not unheard of AFAIK, so combined with the limited amount
of users I think this is a reasonable compromise.
Kalle, do you agree with getting the symlink added to linux-firmware
ASAP as a fix for the V80 Plus issue; or do you want to see a fallback
to the un-cleaned name as you suggested before ?
Regards,
Hans
+ Luis (for real this time)
On 5/6/2019 6:05 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06-05-19 17:24, Victor Bravo wrote:
>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:26:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe
>>>> and also
>>>> disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere,
>>>> specifically
>>>> ':' and ','.
>>>>
>>>> Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
>>>> matching:
>>>>
>>>> brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
>>>> brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
>>>> brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
>>>>
>>>> The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices
>>>> with unsuitable
>>>> DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
>>>>
>>>> So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get
>>>> a symlink
>>>> in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
>>>>
>>>> Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
>>>>
>>>> Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
>>>> but it definitely has some.
>>>
>>> To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other hand we
>>> do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so simple. I
>>> vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long run,
>>> but don't know what Arend thinks.
Hi,
Had a day off today so I did see some of the discussion, but was not
able to chime in until now.
To be honest I always disliked spaces in filenames, but that does not
necessarily make it a bad idea. What I would like to know is why
built-in firmware can not deal with spaces in the firmware file names. I
think Hans mentioned it in the thread and it crossed my mind as well
last night. From driver perspective, being brcmfmac or any other for
that matter, there is only one API to request firmware and in my opinion
it should behave the same no matter where the firmware is coming from. I
would prefer to fix that for built-in firmware, but we need to
understand where this limitation is coming from. Hopefully Luis can
elaborate on that.
>>
>> I have found a fresh judicate on this:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221
>>
>> It seems clear that we have to support at least spaces for some time
>> (maybe wih separate config option which will be deprecated but on by
>> defaut until old files are considered gone).
>
> Ah that issue, well that is not really comparable in that case a lot of
> peoples setups were completely broken by that commit and it was a
> quite surprising behavior change in a userspace facing API.
>
> The nvram loading path already does 2 tries, I really don't want to
> unnecessary complicate it with a third try.
>
> The Onda V80 Plus is a X86 based Windows / Android dual boot tablet,
> as said before I do not expect a ton of users to be running regular
> Linux on it.
>
> Given Kalle's clear preference for getting rid of the spaces lets
> just do that. But first we must get a symlink added to linux-firmware
> using the name with the _, newer kernels requiring a newer linux-firmware
> to match is not unheard of AFAIK, so combined with the limited amount
> of users I think this is a reasonable compromise.
Right. In the brcm folder we have bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin for older
kernels and brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin for later kernels when we switched to
stricter firmware naming convention.
> Kalle, do you agree with getting the symlink added to linux-firmware
> ASAP as a fix for the V80 Plus issue; or do you want to see a fallback
> to the un-cleaned name as you suggested before ?
How many releases have an issue and how many V80 Plus users running
regular linux are actually using built-in firmware. And is it really a
regression for them? Not saying it does not require fixing. However, as
stated above I would prefer to fix the built-in firmware limitation if
possible and backport that fix if it is only a few kernel releases
provided stable allows such a backport.
Regards,
Arend
Hi,
On 06-05-19 21:30, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> + Luis (for real this time)
>
> On 5/6/2019 6:05 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06-05-19 17:24, Victor Bravo wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:26:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>> Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it safe and also
>>>>> disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere, specifically
>>>>> ':' and ','.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on the DMI
>>>>> matching:
>>>>>
>>>>> brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
>>>>> brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
>>>>> brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices with unsuitable
>>>>> DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
>>>>>
>>>>> So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but get a symlink
>>>>> in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
>>>>> but it definitely has some.
>>>>
>>>> To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other hand we
>>>> do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so simple. I
>>>> vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long run,
>>>> but don't know what Arend thinks.
>
> Hi,
>
> Had a day off today so I did see some of the discussion, but was not able to chime in until now.
>
> To be honest I always disliked spaces in filenames, but that does not necessarily make it a bad idea. What I would like to know is why built-in firmware can not deal with spaces in the firmware file names. I think Hans mentioned it in the thread and it crossed my mind as well last night. From driver perspective, being brcmfmac or any other for that matter, there is only one API to request firmware and in my opinion it should behave the same no matter where the firmware is coming from. I would prefer to fix that for built-in firmware, but we need to understand where this limitation is coming
> from. Hopefully Luis can elaborate on that.
Ok.
>>> I have found a fresh judicate on this:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221
>>>
>>> It seems clear that we have to support at least spaces for some time
>>> (maybe wih separate config option which will be deprecated but on by
>>> defaut until old files are considered gone).
>>
>> Ah that issue, well that is not really comparable in that case a lot of
>> peoples setups were completely broken by that commit and it was a
>> quite surprising behavior change in a userspace facing API.
>>
>> The nvram loading path already does 2 tries, I really don't want to
>> unnecessary complicate it with a third try.
>>
>> The Onda V80 Plus is a X86 based Windows / Android dual boot tablet,
>> as said before I do not expect a ton of users to be running regular
>> Linux on it.
>>
>> Given Kalle's clear preference for getting rid of the spaces lets
>> just do that. But first we must get a symlink added to linux-firmware
>> using the name with the _, newer kernels requiring a newer linux-firmware
>> to match is not unheard of AFAIK, so combined with the limited amount
>> of users I think this is a reasonable compromise.
>
> Right. In the brcm folder we have bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin for older kernels and brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin for later kernels when we switched to stricter firmware naming convention.
>
>> Kalle, do you agree with getting the symlink added to linux-firmware
>> ASAP as a fix for the V80 Plus issue; or do you want to see a fallback
>> to the un-cleaned name as you suggested before ?
>
> How many releases have an issue and how many V80 Plus users running regular linux are actually using built-in firmware. And is it really a regression for them? Not saying it does not require fixing. However, as stated above I would prefer to fix the built-in firmware limitation if possible and backport that fix if it is only a few kernel releases provided stable allows such a backport.
The issue is not V80 Plus users running regular linux with built-in firmware.
The issue is that the 5.0+ kernel + a new enough linux-firmware will just
work on the V80 Plus, since linux-firmware contains a nvram file for the V80 Plus,
with the space in the name.
So if we replace the space with an _ then things will stop working for those
users. But we can avoid this by adding a compat symlink to linux-firmware, then
users will require a new linux-firmware together with the new kernel, but that
is not unheard of.
As for how many users / releases. Users who have a fresh Fedora 30 install or
a fresh install of a rolling-release distro may rely on things working ootb.
Users with an older Linux install will have manually added the nvram using
the non board specific name to get things to work, so I expect things to
stay working for them.
So taking the group of people putting regular Linux on a V80 Plus
and then taking the cross-section of the group with users with a very recent
install, I expect the amount of affected users to be very small and both
Fedora and rolling-release updates update linux-firmware regularly.
So IMHO we should be fine with the sanitizing of the DMI strings, combined
with pushing a compat patch to linux-firmware.
Regards,
Hans
>
> Regards,
> Arend
On 5/7/2019 5:38 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06-05-19 21:30, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>> + Luis (for real this time)
>>
>> On 5/6/2019 6:05 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 06-05-19 17:24, Victor Bravo wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:26:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>> Hans de Goede <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If we're going to do some filtering, then I suggest we play it
>>>>>> safe and also
>>>>>> disallow other chars which may be used as a separator somewhere,
>>>>>> specifically
>>>>>> ':' and ','.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently upstream linux-firmware has these files which rely on
>>>>>> the DMI
>>>>>> matching:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> brcmfmac4330-sdio.Prowise-PT301.txt
>>>>>> brcmfmac43430-sdio.Hampoo-D2D3_Vi8A1.txt
>>>>>> brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The others are either part of the DMI override table for devices
>>>>>> with unsuitable
>>>>>> DMI strings like "Default String"; or are device-tree based.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So as long as we don't break those 3 (or break the ONDA one but
>>>>>> get a symlink
>>>>>> in place) we can sanitize a bit more then just non-printable and '/'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kalle, Arend, what is your opinion on this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note I do not expect the ONDA V80 Plus to have a lot of Linux users,
>>>>>> but it definitely has some.
>>>>>
>>>>> To me having spaces in filenames is a bad idea, but on the other
>>>>> hand we
>>>>> do have the "don't break existing setups" rule, so it's not so
>>>>> simple. I
>>>>> vote for not allowing spaces, I think that's the best for the long
>>>>> run,
>>>>> but don't know what Arend thinks.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Had a day off today so I did see some of the discussion, but was not
>> able to chime in until now.
>>
>> To be honest I always disliked spaces in filenames, but that does not
>> necessarily make it a bad idea. What I would like to know is why
>> built-in firmware can not deal with spaces in the firmware file names.
>> I think Hans mentioned it in the thread and it crossed my mind as well
>> last night. From driver perspective, being brcmfmac or any other for
>> that matter, there is only one API to request firmware and in my
>> opinion it should behave the same no matter where the firmware is
>> coming from. I would prefer to fix that for built-in firmware, but we
>> need to understand where this limitation is coming from. Hopefully
>> Luis can elaborate on that.
>
> Ok.
The issue is probably that make does simply split the EXTRA_FIRMWARE
setting at each space character. I tried to use single quote so
"'brcmfmac43340-sdio.ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.-T100HAN.txt'
brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin". No luck. So all I could think of is patch below
which require the user to enter a special sequence, ie. _-_ where space
should be.
"brcmfmac43340-sdio.ASUSTeK_-_COMPUTER_-_INC.-T100HAN.txt
brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin"
It works but I had to drop the dependency so it's all a bit hacky.
Regards,
Arend
diff --git a/firmware/Makefile b/firmware/Makefile
index 37e5ae387400..a536e5d12d5f 100644
--- a/firmware/Makefile
+++ b/firmware/Makefile
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
fwdir := $(subst $(quote),,$(CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR))
fwdir := $(addprefix $(srctree)/,$(filter-out /%,$(fwdir)))$(filter
/%,$(fwdir))
+fw_space_escape := _-_
obj-y := $(addsuffix .gen.o, $(subst $(quote),,$(CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE)))
-FWNAME = $(patsubst $(obj)/%.gen.S,%,$@)
-FWSTR = $(subst /,_,$(subst .,_,$(subst -,_,$(FWNAME))))
+FWNAME = $(subst $(fw_space_escape),$(space),$(patsubst
$(obj)/%.gen.S,%,$@))
+FWSTR = $(subst $(space),_,$(subst /,_,$(subst .,_,$(subst
-,_,$(FWNAME)))))
ASM_WORD = $(if $(CONFIG_64BIT),.quad,.long)
ASM_ALIGN = $(if $(CONFIG_64BIT),3,2)
PROGBITS = $(if $(CONFIG_ARM),%,@)progbits
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ $(obj)/%.gen.S: FORCE
$(call filechk,fwbin)
# The .o files depend on the binaries directly; the .S files don't.
-$(addprefix $(obj)/, $(obj-y)): $(obj)/%.gen.o: $(fwdir)/%
+$(addprefix $(obj)/, $(obj-y)): $(obj)/%.gen.o:
targets := $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%, \
$(shell find $(obj) -name \*.gen.S
2>/dev/null))