linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v4 2/4] topology: use bin

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Message-ID: <067dcbcac2594accbcff48e4365a025c@hisilicon.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:06:08 +0000
From:   "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 2/4] topology: use bin_attribute to avoid buff overflow



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:55 PM
> To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
> Cc: andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] topology: use bin_attribute to avoid buff overflow
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:19:08PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> > From: Tian Tao <tiantao6@...ilicon.com>
> >
> > Reading sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/ returns cpu topology.
> > However, the size of this file is limited to PAGE_SIZE because of the
> > limitation for sysfs attribute. so we use bin_attribute instead of
> > attribute to avoid NR_CPUS too big to cause buff overflow.
> >
> > Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210319041618.14316-2-song.bao.hua@hisilicon
> .com/
> > Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@...ilicon.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
> 
> Is this whole series supposed to go through my tree?

I guess so, and that would be perfect.

> 
> If so I'll wait on it based on my comments so far, otherwise I would
> give an ack for this one...
> 

I will address those issues in your comments.


> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks
Barry