netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:04:58 +0100
From:   Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To:     Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>, alex.aring@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in
 atusb_set_extended_addr

Hello.

On 04.01.22 18:27, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> On 1/4/22 18:40, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> It compiles, but does not work on the real hardware.
>>
>> [    1.114698] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
>> [    1.261691] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=20b7,
>> idProduct=1540, bcdDevice= 0.01
>> [    1.263421] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
>> SerialNumber=1
>> [    1.264952] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 4630333438371502231a
>> [    1.278042] usb 1-1: ATUSB: AT86RF231 version 2
>> [    1.281087] usb 1-1: Firmware: major: 0, minor: 3, hardware type:
>> ATUSB (2)
>> [    1.285191] usb 1-1: atusb_control_msg: req 0x01 val 0x0 idx 0x0,
>> error -61
>> [    1.286903] usb 1-1: failed to fetch extended address, random 
>> address set
>> [    1.288757] usb 1-1: atusb_probe: initialization failed, error = -61
>> [    1.290922] atusb: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -61
>>
>>
>> Without your patch it works as expected:
>>
>> [    1.091925] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
>> [    1.237743] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=20b7,
>> idProduct=1540, bcdDevice= 0.01
>> [    1.239788] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
>> SerialNumber=1
>> [    1.241432] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 4630333438371502231a
>> [    1.255012] usb 1-1: ATUSB: AT86RF231 version 2
>> [    1.258073] usb 1-1: Firmware: major: 0, minor: 3, hardware type:
>> ATUSB (2)
>> [    1.262170] usb 1-1: Firmware: build #132 Mo 28. Nov 16:20:35 CET 2016
>> [    1.266195] usb 1-1: Read permanent extended address
>> 10:e2:d5:ff:ff:00:02:e8 from device
>>
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> thanks for testing on real hw.
> 
> It looks like there is corner case, that Greg mentioned in this thread. 
> atusb_get_and_show_build() reads firmware build info, which may have 
> various length.
> 
> Maybe we can change atusb_control_msg() to usb_control_msg() in 
> atusb_get_and_show_build(), since other callers do not have this problem

That works for me.

I will also have a look at the use of the modern USB API for next. The 
fix here has a higher prio for me to get in and backported though. Once 
we have this we can look at bigger changes in atusb.

regards
Stefan Schmidt