linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/macintosh/smu.c: Mark expected switch fall-through

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:46:34 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/macintosh/smu.c: Mark expected switch fall-through

Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:28:55AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:
>> > Mark switch cases where we are expecting to fall through.
>> >
>> > This patch fixes the following warning (Building: powerpc):
>> >
>> > drivers/macintosh/smu.c: In function 'smu_queue_i2c':
>> > drivers/macintosh/smu.c:854:21: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>> >    cmd->info.devaddr &= 0xfe;
>> >    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
>> > drivers/macintosh/smu.c:855:2: note: here
>> >   case SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_STDSUB:
>> >   ^~~~
>> >
>> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
>> > Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
>> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/macintosh/smu.c | 1 +
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/smu.c b/drivers/macintosh/smu.c
>> > index 276065c888bc..23f1f41c8602 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/macintosh/smu.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/macintosh/smu.c
>> > @@ -852,6 +852,7 @@ int smu_queue_i2c(struct smu_i2c_cmd *cmd)
>> >  		break;
>> >  	case SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_COMBINED:
>> >  		cmd->info.devaddr &= 0xfe;
>> > +		/* fall through */
>> >  	case SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_STDSUB:
>> >  		if (cmd->info.sublen > 3)
>> >  			return -EINVAL;
>> 
>> Why do we think it's an expected fall through? I can't really convince
>> myself from the surrounding code that it's definitely intentional.
>
> Yeah, good question. Just now when I went looking for who
> used SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_COMBINED, I found the only caller in
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/low_i2c.c and it is clearly using a
> fall-through for building the command for "stdsub" and "combined",
> so I think that's justification enough:
>
>         switch(bus->mode) {
>         case pmac_i2c_mode_std:
>                 if (subsize != 0)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 cmd->info.type = SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_SIMPLE;
>                 break;
>         case pmac_i2c_mode_stdsub:
>         case pmac_i2c_mode_combined:
>                 if (subsize > 3 || subsize < 1)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 cmd->info.sublen = subsize;
>                 /* that's big-endian only but heh ! */
>                 memcpy(&cmd->info.subaddr, ((char *)&subaddr) + (4 - subsize),
>                        subsize);
>                 if (bus->mode == pmac_i2c_mode_stdsub)
>                         cmd->info.type = SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_STDSUB;
>                 else
>                         cmd->info.type = SMU_I2C_TRANSFER_COMBINED;
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Thanks.

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