netdev - [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Don't touch the tlv data

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Message-Id: <20210112132449.22243-2-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:24:48 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Don't touch the tlv data

The commit ba8f6f4ae254 ("iwlwifi: dbg: add dumping special device
memory") added a termination of name string just to be sure, and this
seems causing a regression, a GPF triggered at firmware loading.
Basically we shouldn't modify the firmware data that may be provided
as read-only.

This patch drops the code that caused the regression and keep the tlv
data as is.

Fixes: ba8f6f4ae254 ("iwlwifi: dbg: add dumping special device memory")
BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180344
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210733
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---

As an alternative fix, the debug print could be with the printf length
specifier to limit the size to IWL_FW_INIT_MAX_NAME, as found in the
bugzilla entries above, too.  I chose a simpler (partial) revert here
instead.

 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c
index a654147d3cd6..a80a35a7740f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c
@@ -180,13 +180,6 @@ static int iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_region(struct iwl_trans *trans,
 	if (le32_to_cpu(tlv->length) < sizeof(*reg))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* For safe using a string from FW make sure we have a
-	 * null terminator
-	 */
-	reg->name[IWL_FW_INI_MAX_NAME - 1] = 0;
-
-	IWL_DEBUG_FW(trans, "WRT: parsing region: %s\n", reg->name);
-
 	if (id >= IWL_FW_INI_MAX_REGION_ID) {
 		IWL_ERR(trans, "WRT: Invalid region id %u\n", id);
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.26.2