linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] EDAC/i10nm: shift exponent is negative

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Message-ID: <CAJB-X+Wu-Zd6pCrK54aR9iaeS7PW2VmwB+Y+Qeci7Ut0YcdsRg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:05:41 +0800
From:   Koba Ko <koba.ko@...onical.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] EDAC/i10nm: shift exponent is negative

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 3:16 PM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:
>
> > As per suggestions, i modified V3.
> > could you please take a look
> >
> > Subject: [PATCH][V3] EDAC/i10nm: shift exponent is negative
>
> Would you like to put the text “[PATCH v4] EDAC/i10nm: Fix an inappropriate shift exponent”
> into a subsequent patch?

I didn't send V3 so the suggestions could be put in V3.

>
> I would find further wording variants nicer.
>
>
> > Because failed to read from DIMM, get the negative value for shift
> > operation.
>
> A surprising value was determined after a read failure from a DIMM.
>
>
> …
> > UBSAN complains this error
>
> Software analyses pointed a data processing issue out.
>
>
> > `UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/edac/skx_common.c:369:16
> >  shift exponent -66 is negative`
> >
> > when get rows, cols and ranks, the returned error value doesn't be
> > handled.
>
> A special value combination could not be handled so far.
>
>
> > check the return value is EINVAL, if yes, directly return 0 and
> > show error message explicitly.
>
> Check if an invalid value was detected by a call of the function “skx_get_dimm_attr”.
>
> * Print a corresponding error message in this case.
>
> * Return zero then directly from the function “skx_get_dimm_info”.
>
>
> …
> @@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ int skx_get_dimm_info(u32 mtr, u32 mcmtr, u32 amap, struct dimm_info *dimm,
>         ranks = numrank(mtr);
>         rows = numrow(mtr);
>         cols = imc->hbm_mc ? 6 : numcol(mtr);
> +       if (ranks == -EINVAL || rows == -EINVAL || cols == -EINVAL)
> +               return 0;
> …
>
>
> Can it be nicer to perform a check for such an error code directly
> after each variable assignment?
> (May this condition check be split?)
>
>
> > Fixes: 4ec656bdf43a13) EDAC, skx_edac: Add EDAC driver for Skylake
>
> Please properly apply parentheses and double quotes for this tag.
>
> See also:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.4#n145
>
>
> > V2 -> V3: simplify the summary and add 'Fixes:'
> > V1 -> V2: make error-print explicitly
>
> How do you think about to use more succinct version identifiers
> for such descriptions?
>
> V4:
> …
>
> V3:
> …
>
>
> Regards,
> Markus