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

Hanjun Guo hanjun.guo at linaro.org
Thu Aug 13 02:28:41 PDT 2015


On 08/07/2015 04:59 AM, Al Stone wrote:
> The existing BAD_MADT_ENTRY macro only checks that the size of the data
> structure for an MADT subtable matches the length entry in the subtable.
> This is, unfortunately, not reliable.  Nor, as it turns out, does it have
> anything to do with what the length should be in any particular table.
>
> We introduce the bad_madt_entry() function that uses a data set to
> do some basic sanity checks on any given MADT subtable.  Over time, as
> the spec changes, we should just be able to add entries to the data set
> to reflect the changes.
>
> What the data set captures is the allowed MADT subtable length for each
> type of subtable, for each revision of the specification.  While there
> is a revision number in the MADT that we should be able to use to figure
> out the proper subtable length, it was not changed when subtables did.
> And, while there is a major and minor revision in the FADT that could
> also help, it was not always changed as the subtables changed either.
> So, the data set captures for each published version of the ACPI spec
> what the FADT revisions numbers should be, the corresponding MADT
> revision number, and the subtable types and lengths that were defined
> at that time.
>
> The sanity checks done are:
> 	-- is the length non-zero?
> 	-- is the subtable type defined/allowed for the revision of
> 	   the FADT we're using?
> 	-- is the subtable type defined/allowed for the revision of
> 	   the MADT we're using?
> 	-- is the length entry what it should be for this revision
> 	   of the MADT and FADT?
>
> These checks are more thorough than the previous macro provided, and
> are now insulated from data structure size changes by ACPICA, which
> have been the source of other patches in the past.
>
> Now that the bad_madt_entry() function is available, we add code to
> also invoke it before any subtable handlers are called to use the
> info in the subtable.  Subsequent patches will remove the use of the
> BAD_MADT_ENTRY macro which is now redundant as a result.  Any ACPI
> functions that use acpi_parse_madt_entries() will always have all of
> the MADT subtables checked from now on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone at linaro.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/acpi/tables.c | 241 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 241 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index 2e19189..abd7a72 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -214,6 +214,245 @@ void acpi_table_print_madt_entry(struct acpi_subtable_header *header)
>   	}
>   }
>
> +/*
> + * The Long, Sad, True Story of the MADT
> + *    or
> + * What does bad_madt_entry() actually do?
> + *
> + * Once upon a time in ACPI 1.0, there was the MADT.  It was a nice table,
> + * and it had two subtables all of its own.  But, it was also a pretty
> + * busy table, too, so over time the MADT gathered up other nice little
> + * subtables.  By the time ACPI 6.0 came around, the MADT had 16 of the
> + * little guys.
> + *
> + * Now, the MADT kept a little counter around for the subtables.  In fact,
> + * it kept two counters: one was the revision level, which was supposed to
> + * change when new subtables came to be, or as the ones already around grew
> + * up. The second counter was a type number, because the MADT needed a unique
> + * type for each subtable so he could tell them apart.  But, sometimes the
> + * MADT got so busy, he forgot to increment the revision level when he needed
> + * to.  Fortunately, the type counter kept increasing since that's the only
> + * way the MADT could find each little subtable.  It just wouldn't do to have
> + * every subtable called Number 6.
> + *
> + * In the next valley over, a castle full of wizards was watching the MADT
> + * and made a pact to keep their own counter.  Every time the MADT found a
> + * new subtable, or a subtable grew up, the wizards promised they would
> + * increment their counter.  Well, wizards being the forgetful sort, they
> + * didn't alway do that.  And, since there quite a lot of them, they
> + * couldn't always remember who was supposed to keep track of the MADT,
> + * especially if dinner was coming up soon.  Their counter was called the
> + * spec version.
> + *
> + * Every now and then, the MADT would gather up all its little subtables
> + * and take them in to the cobbler to get new boots.  This was a very, very
> + * meticulous cobbler, so every time they came, he wrote down all the boot
> + * sizes for all of the little subtables.  The cobbler would ask each subtable
> + * for its length, check that against his careful notes, and then go get the
> + * right boots.  Sometimes, a little subtable would change a bit, and their
> + * length did not match what the cobbler had written down.  If the wizards
> + * or the MADT had incremented their counters, the cobbler would breath a
> + * sigh of relief and write down the new length as the right one.  But, if
> + * none of the counters had changed, this would make the cobbler very, very
> + * mad.  He couldn't tell if he had the right size boots or not for the
> + * little subtable.  He would have to *guess* and this really bugged him.
> + *
> + * Well, when the cobbler got mad like this, he would go into hiding.  He
> + * would not make or sell any boots.  He would not go out at all.  Pretty
> + * soon, the coffee shop would have to close because the cobbler wasn't
> + * coming by twice a day any more.  Then the grocery store would have to
> + * close because he wouldn't eat much.  After a while, everyone would panic
> + * and have to move from the village and go live with all their relatives
> + * (usually the ones they didn't like very much).
> + *
> + * Eventually, the cobbler would work his way out of his bad mood, and
> + * open up his boot business again.  Then, everyone else could move back
> + * to the village and restart their lives, too.
> + *
> + * Fortunately, we have been able to collect up all the cobbler's careful
> + * notes (and we wrote them down below).  We'll have to keep checking these
> + * notes over time, too, just as the cobbler does.  But, in the meantime,
> + * we can avoid the panic and the reboot since we can make sure that each
> + * subtable is doing okay.  And that's what bad_madt_entry() does.
> + *
> + *
> + * FADT Major Version ->       1    3    4     4     5     5     6
> + * FADT Minor Version ->       x    x    x     x     x     1     0
> + * MADT revision ->            1    1    2     3     3     3     3
> + * Spec Version ->            1.0  2.0  3.0b  4.0a  5.0b  5.1a  6.0
> + * Subtable Name	Type  Expected Length ->
> + * Processor Local APIC  0x0    8    8    8     8     8     8     8
> + * IO APIC               0x1   12   12   12    12    12    12    12
> + * Int Src Override      0x2        10   10    10    10    10    10
> + * NMI Src               0x3         8    8     8     8     8     8
> + * Local APIC NMI Struct 0x4         6    6     6     6     6     6
> + * Local APIC Addr Ovrrd 0x5        16   12    12    12    12    12
> + * IO SAPIC              0x6        20   16    16    16    16    16
> + * Local SAPIC           0x7         8  >16   >16   >16   >16   >16
> + * Platform Int Src      0x8        16   16    16    16    16    16
> + * Proc Local x2APIC     0x9                   16    16    16    16
> + * Local x2APIC NMI      0xa                   12    12    12    12
> + * GICC CPU I/F          0xb                         40    76    80
> + * GICD                  0xc                         24    24    24
> + * GICv2m MSI            0xd                               24    24
> + * GICR                  0xe                               16    16
> + * GIC ITS               0xf                                     16
> + *
> + * In the table, each length entry is what should be in the length
> + * field of the subtable, and -- in general -- it should match the
> + * size of the struct for the subtable.  Any value that is not set
> + * (i.e., is zero) indicates that the subtable is not defined for
> + * that version of the ACPI spec.
> + *
> + */
> +#define SUBTABLE_UNDEFINED	0x00
> +#define SUBTABLE_VARIABLE	0xff
> +#define NUM_SUBTABLE_TYPES	16
> +
> +struct acpi_madt_subtable_lengths {
> +	unsigned short major_version;	/* from revision in FADT header */
> +	unsigned short minor_version;	/* FADT field starting with 5.1 */
> +	unsigned short madt_version;	/* MADT revision */
> +	unsigned short num_types;	/* types possible for this version */
> +	unsigned short lengths[NUM_SUBTABLE_TYPES];
> +					/* subtable lengths, indexed by type */
> +};
> +
> +static struct acpi_madt_subtable_lengths spec_info[] = {
> +	{ /* for ACPI 1.0 */
> +		.major_version = 1,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 1,
> +		.num_types = 2,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 2.0 */
> +		.major_version = 3,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 1,
> +		.num_types = 9,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 16, 20, 8, 16 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 3.0b */
> +		.major_version = 4,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 2,
> +		.num_types = 9,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 16, SUBTABLE_VARIABLE, 16 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 4.0a */
> +		.major_version = 4,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 3,
> +		.num_types = 11,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 16, SUBTABLE_VARIABLE,
> +			     16, 16, 12 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 5.0b */
> +		.major_version = 5,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 3,
> +		.num_types = 13,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 16, SUBTABLE_VARIABLE,
> +			     16, 16, 12, 40, 24 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 5.1a */
> +		.major_version = 5,
> +		.minor_version = 1,
> +		.madt_version = 3,
> +		.num_types = 15,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 16, SUBTABLE_VARIABLE,
> +			     16, 16, 12, 76, 24, 24, 16 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* for ACPI 6.0 */
> +		.major_version = 6,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 3,
> +		.num_types = 16,
> +		.lengths = { 8, 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 16, SUBTABLE_VARIABLE,
> +			     16, 16, 12, 80, 24, 24, 16, 16 }
> +	},
> +	{ /* terminator */
> +		.major_version = 0,
> +		.minor_version = 0,
> +		.madt_version = 0,
> +		.num_types = 0,
> +		.lengths = { 0 }
> +	}
> +};
> +
> +int __init bad_madt_entry(struct acpi_table_header *table,

static?

> +			  struct acpi_subtable_header *entry)
> +{
> +	struct acpi_madt_subtable_lengths *ms;
> +	struct acpi_table_madt *madt;
> +	unsigned short major;
> +	unsigned short minor;
> +	unsigned short len;
> +
> +	/* simple sanity checking on MADT subtable entries */
> +	if (!entry || !table)
> +		return 1;

This function is defined as int, so just return some
error numbers? or

bool __init bad_madt_entry()...

> +
> +	/* FADT minor numbers were not introduced until ACPI 5.1 */
> +	major = acpi_gbl_FADT.header.revision;
> +	if (major >= 5 && acpi_gbl_FADT.header.length >= 268)
> +		minor = acpi_gbl_FADT.minor_revision;
> +	else
> +		minor = 0;
> +
> +	madt = (struct acpi_table_madt *)table;
> +	ms = spec_info;
> +	while (ms->num_types != 0) {
> +		if (ms->major_version == major &&
> +		    ms->minor_version == minor &&
> +		    ms->madt_version == madt->header.revision)
> +			break;
> +		ms++;
> +	}
> +	if (!ms) {

seems ms will never be NULL, as it will point to one entry
in spec_info.

Thanks
Hanjun



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