Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 08:41:47AM -0800, Joseph, Jithu wrote:
> Do you think it is better to restrict filename input to confirm
> to ff-mm-ss-xy.<test> format rather than accepting any string and
> treating it as a file-name and trying to load it, if it is present ?

Yap, that way you pre-filter filenames. Yeah, the header checks *must*
absolutely happen too but it would be a simple first test.

Also, you can check for:

ff-mm-ss-X.<test>

where X is a [0-9]+ of arbitrary length and this way won't have the
artificial 256 limit you have now.

> (Given that, before loading, We do intel_find_matching_signature(),
> which validates if the signature/pf entries in header confirms to the
> machine we are on before loading)
>
> We did accepting file-name as input before [1] (except for validating
> if the filename confirms to ff-mm-ss format)

Yeah, except now you want to do multiple sets of scan files.

But yeah, you can extend the interface even more:

echo <fname> /sysfs/file

* if f/m/s matches, you execute

    if still within the timeout, you return -EAGAIN from
    current_batch_store() to tell userspace, take a nap and try again.

* if the f/m/s doesn't match you return -EINVAL to say, wrong filename,
try the next one.

And this way, the user script can simply look at the retvals and act
accordingly - it won't even need to parse dmesg or wnatnot.

For example.

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