linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] firmware: arm_scmi: Reset properly xfer SCMI status

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Message-ID: <20210607173809.et6fzayvubsosvso@bogus>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:38:09 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        james.quinlan@...adcom.com, Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, etienne.carriere@...aro.org,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, souvik.chakravarty@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] firmware: arm_scmi: Reset properly xfer SCMI
 status

On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 11:12:23PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> When an SCMI command transfer fails due to some protocol issue an SCMI
> error code is reported inside the SCMI message payload itself and it is
> then retrieved and transcribed by the specific transport layer into the
> xfer.hdr.status field by transport specific .fetch_response().
> 
> The core SCMI transport layer never explicitly reset xfer.hdr.status,
> so when an xfer is reused, if a transport misbehaved in handling such
> status field, we risk to see an invalid ghost error code.
> 
> Reset xfer.hdr.status to SCMI_SUCCESS right before each transfer is
> started.
>

Any particular reason why it can't be part of xfer_get_init which has other
initialisations ? If none, please move it there.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep