Hi Bjorn,
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: use filesz as backup when translate
> memsz fail
>
> On Thu 09 Apr 01:22 PDT 2020, Peng Fan wrote:
>
> > Since we no need memset if memsz is larger than filesz, we could use
> > filesz for the da to va translation when memsz translation fail.
> >
>
> To me this implies that the firmware has a segment that's larger than the
> memory that it's going to run in. I think even if we're not writing to the entire
> memsz, asking da_to_va for the entire memsz provides a valuable sanity
> check.
da_to_va implies that Linux should have the va map to da. However
that will be case that Linux is not able to touch all da, it only able touch
half. Then Linux should also map all da?
Thanks,
Peng.
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn
>
> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c
> > b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c
> > index cc50fe70d50c..74d425a4b34c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c
> > +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_elf_loader.c
> > @@ -229,8 +229,16 @@ int rproc_elf_load_segments(struct rproc *rproc,
> const struct firmware *fw)
> > if (!ptr) {
> > dev_err(dev, "bad phdr da 0x%llx mem 0x%llx\n", da,
> > memsz);
> > - ret = -EINVAL;
> > - break;
> > +
> > + ptr = rproc_da_to_va(rproc, da, filesz);
> > + if (!ptr) {
> > + dev_err(dev,
> > + "bad phdr da 0x%llx mem 0x%llx\n",
> > + da, filesz);
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +
> > }
> >
> > /* put the segment where the remote processor expects it */
> > --
> > 2.16.4
> >
