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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI fixes for v6.9-rc6
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael () kernel ! org>
Date: 2024-04-25 19:45:24
Message-ID: CAJZ5v0j7Do94XvUQrLgA_mFFyxdeb2RO08JwUzL0_QErOOrrAQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:18 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 11:58, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > And maybe this time, it's not a buggy mess?
>
> Actually, even with MASK_VAL() fixed, I think it's *STILL* a buggy mess.
>
> Why? Beuse the *uses* of MASK_VAL() seem entirely bogus.
>
> In particular, we have this in cpc_write():
>
> if (reg->space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY)
> val = MASK_VAL(reg, val);
>
> switch (size) {
> case 8:
> writeb_relaxed(val, vaddr);
> break;
> case 16:
> writew_relaxed(val, vaddr);
> break;
> ...
>
> and I strongly suspect that it needs to update the 'vaddr' too. Something like
>
> if (reg->space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY) {
> val = MASK_VAL(reg, val);
> #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> vaddr += reg->bit_offset >> 3;
> if (reg->bit_offset & 7)
> return -EFAULT;
> #else
> /* Fixme if we ever care */
> if (reg->bit_offset)
> return -EFAULT;
> #endif
> }
>
> *might* be changing this in the right direction, but it's unclear and
> I neither know that CPC rules, nor did I think _that_ much about it.
This is a very nice catch, thank you!
> Anyway, the take-away should be that all this code is entirely broken
> and somebody didn't think enough about it.
>
> It's possible that that whole cpc_write() ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY
> case should be done as a 64-bit "read-mask-write" sequence.
>
> Possibly with "reg->bit_offset == 0" and the 8/16/32/64-bit cases as a
> special case for "just do the write".
>
> Or, maybe writes with a non-zero bit offset shouldn't be allowed at
> all, and there are CPC rules that aren't checked. I don't know. I only
> know that the current code is seriously broken.
In any case, this needs to be taken care of (Jared?).
Thanks,
Rafael
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