Re: [PATCH] usb: typec: mux: Fix matching with typec_altmode_desc

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 6:47 AM Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> In typec_mux_match() "nval" is assigned the number of elements in the
> "svid" fwnode property, then the variable is used to store the success
> of the read and finally attempts to loop between 0 and "success" - i.e.
> not at all - and the code returns indicating that no match was found.
>
> Fix this by using a separate variable to track the success of the read,
> to allow the loop to get a change to find a match.
>
> Fixes: 96a6d031ca99 ("usb: typec: mux: Find the muxes by also matching against the device node")
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/typec/mux.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/mux.c b/drivers/usb/typec/mux.c
> index 9da22ae3006c..8514bec7e1b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/mux.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static void *typec_mux_match(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode, const char *id,
>         bool match;
>         int nval;
>         u16 *val;
> +       int ret;
>         int i;
>
>         /*
> @@ -218,10 +219,10 @@ static void *typec_mux_match(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode, const char *id,
>         if (!val)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> -       nval = fwnode_property_read_u16_array(fwnode, "svid", val, nval);
> -       if (nval < 0) {
> +       ret = fwnode_property_read_u16_array(fwnode, "svid", val, nval);
> +       if (ret < 0) {
>                 kfree(val);
> -               return ERR_PTR(nval);
> +               return ERR_PTR(ret);
>         }

This changes the behaviour of the original code, i.e. nval can be
still positive but less than we got from previous call. Some fwnode
backends in some cases potentially can _successfully_ read less than
asked.

Perhaps

  nval = ret;

or drop the patch.

>         for (i = 0; i < nval; i++) {


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko