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Message-ID: <d72f2787-c41b-4933-a017-911232ff2f7f@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:58:49 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        sudeep.holla@....com, james.quinlan@...adcom.com,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, etienne.carriere@...aro.org,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, souvik.chakravarty@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/22] firmware: arm_scmi: Add SCMIv3.1 extended names
 protocols support

On 6/15/22 10:32, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> 
> Ok, this was another place where a reply carrying a consistent number of
> non-segmented entries could trigger an jumbo-request to kmalloc...
> 
> ..maybe this is where a transient fw issue can reply with a dramatic
> numbers of possible (non-segmented) levels (num_returned+num_remaining)
> 
> (I filter out replies carrying descriptors for segmented voltage-levels
> that does not come in triplets (returned:3  remaining:0) since they are out
> of spec...but I just hit today on another fw sending such out of spec
> reply for clocks and I will relax such req probably not to break too
> many out-of-spec blobs out in the wild :P)
> 
> So let me know if got new splats...

This turned out to be a nice firmware bug, someone *cough* *cough* 
decided to add some extra "protection" using a temporary buffer and they 
completely forgot the newly added voltage domain service, so we would 
just return stale information, wonderful. This is now fixed.

Thanks a lot for your responsiveness and support.
-- 
Florian

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