Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:00:23 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regmap: Add function check before called format_val |
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:31:34PM +0800, Henry Chen wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 18:25 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > OK, so the issue here is that when we fall back to regmap_read() we may > > do so because we have reg_read() and reg_write() functions which in turn > > imply no formatting. The expectation here is that val must be an array > > of int. The code doesn't completely take that into account though and > > the user you're pointing at is assuming it's an array of 16 bit values > > which isn't totally unreasonable if it did specify val_bits (we don't > > check for that).
> So, could I call regmap_bulk_read() on rtc-mt6307.c, should I need to > change it ?
It should be fine but you may need to change to pass an array of unsigned int instead of an array of u16 in.
> > > Maybe it was not the good fix for this, but should be a problem need to > > > be reported, or should I need to give the regmap_bus on mtk_pmic_wrap.c?
> > That file isn't in mainline...
> oh...it's mtk-pmic-wrap.c, sorry about that.
Found it - thanks.
> > memcpy() is definitely not a safe way to move from an unsigned int to a > > u16 which is what your specific use case is trying to do. I'll need to > > do an audit of existing users (or someone else will!) to figure out what > > people are doing with .val_bits in drivers using reg_read() and > > reg_write() but I think what we should be doing here is probably > > providing appropriate conversion functions based on val_bits on init.
> Ok, got it, memcpy() should not be used here anymore.
Right. We just need to do a survey of existing users and figure out what the least disruptive format function to provide is. That way we don't have to special case other code that uses formatting. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |