Re: [PATCH v4 07/14] of: property: Fix potential fwnode reference's argument count got out of range

[Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@icloud.com>]

On 2025/1/11 04:35, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:26:58PM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
>> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
>>
>> Currently, the maximal fwnode reference argument count supported is
>> 8, and the maximal OF node phandle argument count supported is 16, but
>> of_fwnode_get_reference_args() directly assigns OF node phandle count
>> @of_args.args_count to fwnode reference count @args->nargs, so may cause
>> fwnode reference argument count got is out of range, namely, in [9, 16].
>>
>> Fix by truncating @args->nargs got to 8 and warning if it > 8.
>>
>> Fixes: b66548e2a9ba ("of: Increase MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS")
> No, it would have been 3e3119d3088f ("device property: Introduce 
> fwnode_property_get_reference_args").
> 

agree.

> Why don't we increase NR_FWNODE_REFERENCE_ARGS or rework things such 
> that MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS and NR_FWNODE_REFERENCE_ARGS can't disagree?

that may involve ACPI and not sure if there are risk.

the commit you mentioned above have below commit message:

"The semantics is slightly different: the cells property is ignored on
ACPI as the number of arguments can be explicitly obtained from the
firmware interface"

let me do more investigation (^^).

perhaps, various firmware(DT|APCI|SWNODE...) may use
NR_FWNODE_REFERENCE_ARGS instead defining a MACRO such as
MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS separately.

> 
>> Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/of/property.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)