linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 18/20] gpu: nova-core: add types for patching firmware binaries

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Message-ID: <174f6e67b518844440259fd3b24eaeceecc1a42b.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:16:31 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, Miguel Ojeda
 <ojeda@...nel.org>,  Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/20] gpu: nova-core: add types for patching
 firmware binaries

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:45 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Some of the firmwares need to be patched at load-time with a signature.
> Add a couple of types and traits that sub-modules can use to implement
> this behavior, while ensuring that the correct kind of signature is
> applied to the firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/dma.rs      |  3 ---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/dma.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/dma.rs
> index 4b063aaef65ec4e2f476fc5ce9dc25341b6660ca..1f1f8c378d8e2cf51edc772e7afe392e9c9c8831 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/dma.rs
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/dma.rs
> @@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
>  
>  //! Simple DMA object wrapper.
>  
> -// To be removed when all code is used.
> -#![expect(dead_code)]
> -
>  use core::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
>  
>  use kernel::device;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
> index c5d0f16d0de0e29f9f68f2e0b37e1e997a72782d..3909ceec6ffd28466d8b2930a0116ac73629d967 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
> @@ -3,11 +3,15 @@
>  //! Contains structures and functions dedicated to the parsing, building and patching of firmwares
>  //! to be loaded into a given execution unit.
>  
> +use core::marker::PhantomData;
> +
>  use kernel::device;
>  use kernel::firmware;
>  use kernel::prelude::*;
>  use kernel::str::CString;
>  
> +use crate::dma::DmaObject;
> +use crate::falcon::FalconFirmware;
>  use crate::gpu;
>  use crate::gpu::Chipset;
>  
> @@ -82,6 +86,46 @@ pub(crate) fn size(&self) -> usize {
>      }
>  }
>  
> +/// A [`DmaObject`] containing a specific microcode ready to be loaded into a falcon.
> +///
> +/// This is module-local and meant for sub-modules to use internally.
> +struct FirmwareDmaObject<F: FalconFirmware>(DmaObject, PhantomData<F>);
> +
> +/// Trait for signatures to be patched directly into a given firmware.
> +///
> +/// This is module-local and meant for sub-modules to use internally.
> +trait FirmwareSignature<F: FalconFirmware>: AsRef<[u8]> {}
> +
> +#[expect(unused)]
> +impl<F: FalconFirmware> FirmwareDmaObject<F> {
> +    /// Creates a new `UcodeDmaObject` containing `data`.
> +    fn new(dev: &device::Device<device::Bound>, data: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
> +        DmaObject::from_data(dev, data).map(|dmaobj| Self(dmaobj, PhantomData))
> +    }
> +
> +    /// Patches the firmware at offset `sig_base_img` with `signature`.
> +    fn patch_signature<S: FirmwareSignature<F>>(
> +        &mut self,
> +        signature: &S,
> +        sig_base_img: usize,
> +    ) -> Result<()> {
> +        let signature_bytes = signature.as_ref();
> +        if sig_base_img + signature_bytes.len() > self.0.size() {
> +            return Err(EINVAL);
> +        }
> +
> +        // SAFETY: we are the only user of this object, so there cannot be any race.
> +        let dst = unsafe { self.0.start_ptr_mut().add(sig_base_img) };
> +
> +        // SAFETY: `signature` and `dst` are valid, properly aligned, and do not overlap.
> +        unsafe {
> +            core::ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(signature_bytes.as_ptr(), dst, signature_bytes.len())
> +        };
> +
> +        Ok(())
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  pub(crate) struct ModInfoBuilder<const N: usize>(firmware::ModInfoBuilder<N>);
>  
>  impl<const N: usize> ModInfoBuilder<N> {
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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