linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] tee: optee: Provide special parameter field for UUID values

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Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:01:32 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>
Cc:     OP-TEE TrustedFirmware <op-tee@...ts.trustedfirmware.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] tee: optee: Provide special parameter field for
 UUID values

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:35:51PM +0200, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 4:58 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

Thanks for review, my answer below.

> >                 struct optee_msg_param_tmem tmem;
> >                 struct optee_msg_param_rmem rmem;
> >                 struct optee_msg_param_value value;
> > +               uuid_t uuid;
> 
> It's nice to get rid of the cast above, but I'm not that keen on the
> change in this struct. This file defines the ABI towards Secure world
> and adding dependencies on external complex types is a larger problem
> than the cast above in my opinion.

I understand.

So, the cast is simply wrong there. Can you add a comment above that cast to
explain that and make it is marked as FIXME? Because there is no guarantee that
internal Linux types can be 1:1 mapped to the ABI of something.

What you need, perhaps, is a middle layer function that will copy u64 data
to uuid_t or so. Also, u64 is not an ABI type, why the respective __uXX
variants are not in use?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko