Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] ACPI: add in a bad_madt_entry() function to eventually replace the macro

[Sudeep Holla]

On 09/09/15 20:57, Al Stone wrote:
> On 09/07/2015 09:32 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > On 19/08/15 23:07, Al Stone wrote:
> >
> > I finally got a chance to try this series on Juno. Well it exposed a firmware
> > bug in MADT table :)
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > >                   acpi_tbl_entry_handler handler,
> > > @@ -245,6 +484,8 @@ acpi_parse_entries(char *id, unsigned long table_size,
> > >                  table_end) {
> > >                   if (entry->type == entry_id
> > >                       && (!max_entries || count < max_entries)) {
> > > +                       if (bad_madt_entry(table_header, entry))
> > > +                               return -EINVAL;
> >
> > Not sure if we can have the above check here unconditionally.
> > Currently I can see there are 2 other users of acpi_parse_entries i.e.
> > PCC and NUMA. So may be it can be made conditional or return success for
> > non-MADT tables from bad_madt_entry ?
>
> So, I went back and double checked the other users and they're looking at
> the return value for acpi_parse_entries properly; adding in the check above
> unconditionally should not cause any behavior change.

I disagree. I populated PCCT table on Juno to get this error for
PCCT(PCCT header gets interpreted as MADT header):
"
ACPI: undefined version for either FADT 5.1 or MADT 1
Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT
"
And here the stacktrace:
[<ffffffc000881e58>] bad_madt_entry+0x90/0x16c
[<ffffffc000882030>] acpi_table_parse_entries+0xfc/0x180
[<ffffffc000895af8>] pcc_init+0x70/0x148

> Further, despite the name, acpi_parse_entries is only used to examine MADT
> subtables.  Granted, we should probably make the name clearer at some point
> (too ambiguous as to which entries are parsed right now).  Nonetheless, current
> usage seems to be in order.

From the code inspection, I can see we have 3 users of 
acpi_parse_entries not just MADT but also PCC and NUMA/SRAT

Something like this solves this issue:
-              if (bad_madt_entry(table_header, entry))
+              if (!strncmp(id, ACPI_SIG_MADT, 4) &&
+                      bad_madt_entry(table_header, entry)


Or am I still missing something ?

Regards,
Sudeep
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