[PATCH 1/1] firmware: smccc: Fix check for ARCH_SOC_ID not implemented

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Nov 22 03:52:50 PST 2021


On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:56:16AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 9:35 AM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 03:39:01PM -0800, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > > The ARCH_FEATURES function ID is a 32-bit SMC call, which returns
> > > a 32-bit result per the SMCCC spec.  Current code is doing a 64-bit
> > > comparison against -1 (SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED) to detect that the
> > > feature is unimplemented.  That check doesn't work in a Hyper-V VM,
> > > where the upper 32-bits are zero as allowed by the spec.
> > >
> > > Cast the result as an 'int' so the comparison works. The change also
> > > makes the code consistent with other similar checks in this file.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 821b67fa4639 ("firmware: smccc: Add ARCH_SOC_ID support")
> >
> > Good catch.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> >
> > Can you please re-post with my review tag keeping arm at kernel.org and
> > soc at kernel.org ? I don't have any other fixes at the moment, we can
> > ask SoC maintainers to fix this up directly.
>
> In general, I think the easiest way would be for you to forward the
> patch with your Signed-off-by, when you don't have other material
> for a pull request.
>

Thanks for the tip, I will follow that in future.

> I've applied this patch from the list now.
>

Thanks for that.

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Regards,
Sudeep



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