linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of some failures

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 08:20:51 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>
Cc:     "dvhart@...radead.org" <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, quasisec@...gle.com,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, mjg59@...gle.com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of
 some failures

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@...l.com> wrote:
> There is a lot of error checking in place for the format of the WMI
> descriptor buffer, but some of the potentially raised issues should
> be considered critical failures.
>
> If the buffer size or header don't match, this is a good indication
> that the buffer format changed in a way that the rest of the data
> should not be relied upon.
>
> For the remaining data set vectors, continue to notate a warning
> in undefined results, but as those are fields that the descriptor
> intended to refer to other applications, don't fail if they're new
> values.

> -       if (strncmp(obj->string.pointer, "DELL WMI", 8) != 0)
> -               dev_warn(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%8ph)\n",
> +       if (strncmp(obj->string.pointer, "DELL WMI", 8) != 0) {
> +               dev_err(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%8ph)\n",

A nit: ping-pong programming detected.
Looks like current patch 2 should go at least after this one.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko