linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v20 13/17] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:16:28 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
Cc:     Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
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        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 13/17] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:32:55PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> On 19 January 2017 at 17:11, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org> wrote:
> > On 2017/1/18 21:25, fu.wei@...aro.org wrote:
> >> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>

> >> +       else if (!gtdt->platform_timer_count)
> >> +               pr_debug("No Platform Timer.\n");
> >> +       else
> >> +               timer_count = gtdt->platform_timer_count;
> >> +
> >> +       if (timer_count) {
> >> +               platform_timer = (void *)gtdt +
> >> gtdt->platform_timer_offset;
> >> +               if (platform_timer < (void *)table +
> >> +                                    sizeof(struct acpi_table_gtdt)) {
> >> +                       pr_err(FW_BUG "invalid timer data.\n");
> >
> >
> > It's ok but I didn't see other ACPI tables parsing did this check,
> > maybe we can just remove it :)
> 
> here, I want to make sure the FW is valid.
> Once there is a FW bug, we could just return with error.  :-)

Yes, please keep the check!

If anything, it would be nicer for the other ACPI code to verify things
a little more stringently.

Thanks,
Mark.