linux-kernel - Re: [ 031/100] iwlwifi: always copy first 16 bytes of commands

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Message-ID: <1363225816.3937.119.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:50:16 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 031/100] iwlwifi: always copy first 16 bytes of commands

On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 15:31 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> commit 8a964f44e01ad3bbc208c3e80d931ba91b9ea786 upstream.
[...]
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
[...]
> @@ -1221,14 +1238,31 @@ static int iwl_pcie_enqueue_hcmd(struct
>  
>  	/* and copy the data that needs to be copied */
>  	cmd_pos = offsetof(struct iwl_device_cmd, payload);
> +	copy_size = sizeof(out_cmd->hdr);
>  	for (i = 0; i < IWL_MAX_CMD_TFDS; i++) {
> -		if (!cmd->len[i])
> +		int copy = 0;
> +
> +		if (!cmd->len)
>  			continue;

cmd->len is an array, so the new condition is always false.  Shouldn't
it be 'if (!cmdlen[i])'?

Ben.

> -		if (cmd->dataflags[i] & (IWL_HCMD_DFL_NOCOPY |
> -					 IWL_HCMD_DFL_DUP))
> -			break;
> -		memcpy((u8 *)out_cmd + cmd_pos, cmd->data[i], cmd->len[i]);
> -		cmd_pos += cmd->len[i];
> +
> +		/* need at least IWL_HCMD_MIN_COPY_SIZE copied */
> +		if (copy_size < IWL_HCMD_MIN_COPY_SIZE) {
> +			copy = IWL_HCMD_MIN_COPY_SIZE - copy_size;
> +
> +			if (copy > cmd->len[i])
> +				copy = cmd->len[i];
> +		}
> +
> +		/* copy everything if not nocopy/dup */
> +		if (!(cmd->dataflags[i] & (IWL_HCMD_DFL_NOCOPY |
> +					   IWL_HCMD_DFL_DUP)))
> +			copy = cmd->len[i];
> +
> +		if (copy) {
> +			memcpy((u8 *)out_cmd + cmd_pos, cmd->data[i], copy);
> +			cmd_pos += copy;
> +			copy_size += copy;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(txq->entries[idx].copy_cmd);
[...]

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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