linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 0/6] Refactor capability search into common macros

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <a499a2cb-1755-423d-95a0-c87746c128d2@163.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:09:39 +0800
From: Hans Zhang <18255117159@....com>
To: lpieralisi@...nel.org, bhelgaas@...gle.com, mani@...nel.org,
 ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com, kwilczynski@...nel.org
Cc: robh@...nel.org, jingoohan1@...il.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 0/6] Refactor capability search into common macros

Dear Ilpo,

Gentle ping.

Best regards,
Hans

On 2025/6/8 00:13, Hans Zhang wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> This patch series addresses long-standing code duplication in PCI
> capability discovery logic across the PCI core and controller drivers.
> The existing implementation ties capability search to fully initialized
> PCI device structures, limiting its usability during early controller
> initialization phases where device/bus structures may not yet be
> available.
> 
> The primary goal is to decouple capability discovery from PCI device
> dependencies by introducing a unified framework using config space
> accessor-based macros. This enables:
> 
> 1. Early Capability Discovery: Host controllers (e.g., Cadence, DWC)
> can now perform capability searches during pre-initialization stages
> using their native config accessors.
> 
> 2. Code Consolidation: Common logic for standard and extended capability
> searches is refactored into shared macros (`PCI_FIND_NEXT_CAP_TTL` and
> `PCI_FIND_NEXT_EXT_CAPABILITY`), eliminating redundant implementations.
> 
> 3. Safety and Maintainability: TTL checks are centralized within the
> macros to prevent infinite loops, while hardcoded offsets in drivers
> are replaced with dynamic discovery, reducing fragility.
> 
> Key improvements include:
> - Driver Conversions: DesignWare and Cadence drivers are migrated to
>    use the new macros, removing device-specific assumptions and ensuring
>    consistent error handling.
> 
> - Enhanced Readability: Magic numbers are replaced with symbolic
>    constants, and config space accessors are standardized for clarity.
> 
> - Backward Compatibility: Existing PCI core behavior remains unchanged.
> 
> ---
> Changes since v12:
> - Modify some commit messages, code format issues, and optimize the function return values.
> 
> Changes since v11:
> - Resolved some compilation warning.
> - Add some include.
> - Add the *** BLURB HERE *** description(Corrected by Mani and Krzysztof).
> 
> Changes since v10:
> - The patch [v10 2/6] remove #include <uapi/linux/pci_regs.h> and add macro definition comments.
> - The patch [v10 3/6] remove #include <uapi/linux/pci_regs.h> and commit message were modified.
> - The other patches have not been modified.
> 
> Changes since v9:
> - Resolved [v9 4/6] compilation error.
>    The latest 6.15 rc1 merge __dw_pcie_find_vsec_capability, which uses
>    dw_pcie_find_next_ext_capability.
> - The other patches have not been modified.
> 
> Changes since v8:
> - Split patch.
> - The patch commit message were modified.
> - Other patches(4/6, 5/6, 6/6) are unchanged.
> 
> Changes since v7:
> - Patch 2/5 and 3/5 compilation error resolved.
> - Other patches are unchanged.
> 
> Changes since v6:
> - Refactor capability search into common macros.
> - Delete pci-host-helpers.c and MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Changes since v5:
> - If you put the helpers in drivers/pci/pci.c, they unnecessarily enlarge
>    the kernel's .text section even if it's known already at compile time
>    that they're never going to be used (e.g. on x86).
> - Move the API for find capabilitys to a new file called
>    pci-host-helpers.c.
> - Add new patch for MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Changes since v4:
> - Resolved [v4 1/4] compilation warning.
> - The patch subject and commit message were modified.
> 
> Changes since v3:
> - Resolved [v3 1/4] compilation error.
> - Other patches are not modified.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - Add and split into a series of patches.
> ---
> 
> Hans Zhang (6):
>    PCI: Introduce generic bus config read helper function
>    PCI: Clean up __pci_find_next_cap_ttl() readability
>    PCI: Refactor capability search into common macros
>    PCI: dwc: Use common PCI host bridge APIs for finding the capabilities
>    PCI: cadence: Use common PCI host bridge APIs for finding the
>      capabilities
>    PCI: cadence: Use cdns_pcie_find_*capability to avoid hardcode
> 
>   drivers/pci/access.c                          | 15 ++++
>   .../pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-ep.c  | 38 ++++----
>   drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.c | 30 +++++++
>   drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.h | 18 ++--
>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.c  | 83 ++++--------------
>   drivers/pci/pci.c                             | 76 +++-------------
>   drivers/pci/pci.h                             | 87 +++++++++++++++++++
>   include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h                 |  3 +
>   8 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: ec7714e4947909190ffb3041a03311a975350fe0