linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] drm/edid: Add a function to match EDID with identity

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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:20:08 -0800
From: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, 
	Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan@...cinc.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, 
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, 
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] drm/edid: Add a function to match EDID with identity

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 3:30 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > +static void
> > +match_identity(const struct detailed_timing *timing, void *data)
> > +{
> > +       struct drm_edid_match_closure *closure = data;
> > +       unsigned int i;
> > +       const char *name = closure->ident->name;
> > +       unsigned int name_len = strlen(name);
> > +       const char *desc = timing->data.other_data.data.str.str;
> > +       unsigned int desc_len = ARRAY_SIZE(timing->data.other_data.data.str.str);
> > +
> > +       if (name_len > desc_len ||
> > +           !(is_display_descriptor(timing, EDID_DETAIL_MONITOR_NAME) ||
> > +             is_display_descriptor(timing, EDID_DETAIL_MONITOR_STRING)))
> > +               return;
> > +
> > +       if (strncmp(name, desc, name_len))
> > +               return;
> > +
> > +       /* Allow trailing white spaces and \0. */
> > +       for (i = name_len; i < desc_len; i++) {
> > +               if (desc[i] == '\n')
> > +                       break;
> > +               if (!isspace(desc[i]) && !desc[i])
> > +                       return;
> > +       }
>
> If my code analysis is correct, I think you'll reject the case where:
>
> name = "foo"
> desc[13] = "foo \0zzzzzzzz"
>
> ...but you'll accept these cases:
>
> desc[13] = "foo \nzzzzzzzz"
> desc[13] = "foo \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"
>
> It somehow seems weird to me that a '\n' terminates the string but not a '\0'.

I'm also not sure about \0... based on
https://git.linuxtv.org/edid-decode.git/tree/parse-base-block.cpp#n493,
they use \n as terminator. Maybe we should also reject \0 before\n?
Since it's not printable.

>
> I would have done:
>
>       for (i = name_len; i < desc_len; i++) {
>               /* Consider \n or \0 to terminate the string */
>               if (desc[i] == '\n' || desc[i] == '\0')
>                       break;
>               /* OK for spaces at the end, but non-space is a fail */
>               if (!isspace(desc[i]))
>                       return;
>       }
>
>
> > @@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ struct edid {
> >         u8 checksum;
> >  } __attribute__((packed));
> >
> > +/* EDID matching */
> > +struct drm_edid_ident {
> > +       u32 panel_id;
> > +       const char *name;
>
> Might not hurt to have a comment for panel_id saying that it's encoded
> by drm_edid_encode_panel_id() so it's obvious what this random u32 is.
>
>
> -Doug