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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 04/28] cx25840: treat firmware data as const
On Sun, 25 May 2008, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> There is no need to do the first two bytes first. As far as I can tell
> it was done to avoid having to allocate a local buffer. The initial
> version of this code was writing much larger blocks at a time to the
> i2c bus, so having to setup a large buffer on the stack was
> undesirable. The pvrusb driver requires a much smaller buffer (FWSEND),
> but the code was never changed. Now, however, the initial four-byte
> write is just in the way and can be removed in favor of always writing
> FWSEND-sized blocks of data.
>
> I've CC-ed Mike Isely, the pvrusb2 maintainer, just in case there is an
> outlandish restriction I'm not aware of on that USB device requiring
> the firmware load to be done this way.
>

The pvrusb2 driver's FWSEND limit is an artifact of the hardware and
cannot be changed. HOWEVER, in the standalone driver (not in the
kernel) I have a hack implemented that can monitor and intercept such
I2C operations and break them into smaller I2C transactions. I
implemented this to allow the standalone driver to function correctly on
some older kernels where FWSEND is too large. I can enable that hack
for the kernel driver and thus lift the limit. But without it, FWSEND
absolutely has to be small enough that the entire transaction (including
a few bytes of transport overhead) can fit within a 64 byte URB.

I see that this change allocates a local buffer on the stack (sized by
FWSEND). Though the buffer is small (48 bytes, see above paragraph), it
is controlled by a macro and thus leaves open the possibility that it
could be accidentally increased to a point where the stack gets
overflowed. Seems like not a good idea, but either way it should not
affect the pvrusb2 driver.

Acked-By: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>

-Mike


> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
> On Sunday 25 May 2008 12:23:33 David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c | 21
> > +++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8
> > deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
> > b/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c index
> > 620d295..5c08ede 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
> > @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int check_fw_load(struct i2c_client *client,
> > int size) return 0;
> > }
> >
> > -static int fw_write(struct i2c_client *client, u8 *data, int size)
> > +static int fw_write(struct i2c_client *client, const u8 *data, int
> > size) {
> > if (i2c_master_send(client, data, size) < size) {
> > v4l_err(client, "firmware load i2c failure\n");
> > @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ int cx25840_loadfw(struct i2c_client *client)
> > {
> > struct cx25840_state *state = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
> > const struct firmware *fw = NULL;
> > - u8 buffer[4], *ptr;
> > + u8 buffer[FWSEND];
> > + const u8 *ptr;
> > int size, retval;
> >
> > if (state->is_cx23885)
> > @@ -108,6 +109,8 @@ int cx25840_loadfw(struct i2c_client *client)
> >
> > buffer[0] = 0x08;
> > buffer[1] = 0x02;
> > +
> > + /* Do we really need to do the first two bytes first? */
> > buffer[2] = fw->data[0];
> > buffer[3] = fw->data[1];
> > retval = fw_write(client, buffer, 4);
> > @@ -118,19 +121,21 @@ int cx25840_loadfw(struct i2c_client *client)
> > }
> >
> > size = fw->size - 2;
> > - ptr = fw->data;
> > + ptr = fw->data + 2;
> > while (size > 0) {
> > - ptr[0] = 0x08;
> > - ptr[1] = 0x02;
> > - retval = fw_write(client, ptr, min(FWSEND, size + 2));
> > + int len = min(FWSEND - 2, size);
> > +
> > + memcpy(buffer + 2, ptr, len);
> > +
> > + retval = fw_write(client, ptr, len + 2);
> >
> > if (retval < 0) {
> > release_firmware(fw);
> > return retval;
> > }
> >
> > - size -= FWSEND - 2;
> > - ptr += FWSEND - 2;
> > + size -= len;
> > + ptr += len;
> > }
> >
> > end_fw_load(client);
>
>
>

--

Mike Isely
isely @ pobox (dot) com
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