[PATCH v20 13/17] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

[Fu Wei]

Hi Mark,

On 19 January 2017 at 19:16, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:32:55PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
>> On 19 January 2017 at 17:11, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > On 2017/1/18 21:25, fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:
>> >> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei at linaro.org>
>
>> >> +       else if (!gtdt->platform_timer_count)
>> >> +               pr_debug("No Platform Timer.\n");
>> >> +       else
>> >> +               timer_count = gtdt->platform_timer_count;
>> >> +
>> >> +       if (timer_count) {
>> >> +               platform_timer = (void *)gtdt +
>> >> gtdt->platform_timer_offset;
>> >> +               if (platform_timer < (void *)table +
>> >> +                                    sizeof(struct acpi_table_gtdt)) {
>> >> +                       pr_err(FW_BUG "invalid timer data.\n");
>> >
>> >
>> > It's ok but I didn't see other ACPI tables parsing did this check,
>> > maybe we can just remove it :)
>>
>> here, I want to make sure the FW is valid.
>> Once there is a FW bug, we could just return with error.  :-)
>
> Yes, please keep the check!

Yes, we will keep this check   :-)

Thanks!
>
> If anything, it would be nicer for the other ACPI code to verify things
> a little more stringently.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.



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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat