Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cxl/cdat: Fix header sum value in CDAT checksum

[Ira Weiny]

Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:33:04 -0800
> Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The addition of the DCD support for CXL type-3 devices extended the CDAT
> > table large enough that the checksum being returned was incorrect.[1]
> > 
> > This was because the checksum value was using the header length field
> > rather than each of the 4 bytes of the length field.  This was
> > previously not seen because the length of the CDAT data was less than
> > 256 thus resulting in an equivalent checksum value.
> > 
> > Properly calculate the checksum for the CDAT header.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231116-fix-cdat-devm-free-v1-1-b148b40707d7@xxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > Fixes: aba578bdace5 ("hw/cxl/cdat: CXL CDAT Data Object Exchange implementation")
> > Cc: Huai-Cheng Kuo <hchkuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > Changes from V1:
> > [djiang: Remove do {} while (0);]
> > ---
> >  hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c | 9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c b/hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c
> > index 24829cf2428d..67e44a4f992a 100644
> > --- a/hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c
> > +++ b/hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c
> > @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static void ct3_build_cdat(CDATObject *cdat, Error **errp)
> >      g_autofree CDATTableHeader *cdat_header = NULL;
> >      g_autofree CDATEntry *cdat_st = NULL;
> >      uint8_t sum = 0;
> > +    uint8_t *buf;
> This results in a shadowing variable warning. I'll rename it to hdr_buf or something
> like that.

<sigh>  sorry again...

With all the discussion did you want me to re-roll the set?

AFAICS this is the only actual issue.  So if you want to do it that would
be great.

Thanks,
Ira