Re: [net-next PATCH v6 5/6] net: phy: Add support for Aeonsemi AS21xxx PHYs

[Christian Marangi]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 06:29:59PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > +static int aeon_ipc_get_fw_version(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > +{
> > +	u16 ret_data[8], data[1];
> > +	u16 ret_sts;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	data[0] = IPC_INFO_VERSION;
> > +	ret = aeon_ipc_send_msg(phydev, IPC_CMD_INFO, data,
> > +				sizeof(data), &ret_sts);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	ret = aeon_ipc_rcv_msg(phydev, ret_sts, ret_data);
> > +	if (ret < 0)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	phydev_info(phydev, "Firmware Version: %s\n", (char *)ret_data);
> 
> Maybe don't trust the firmware to return a \0 terminated string?
> 
> > +static int as21xxx_match_phy_device(struct phy_device *phydev,
> > +				    const struct phy_driver *phydrv)
> > +{
> > +	/* Sync parity... */
> > +	ret = aeon_ipc_sync_parity(phydev, priv);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +	/* ...and send a third NOOP cmd to wait for firmware finish loading */
> > +	ret = aeon_ipc_noop(phydev, priv, &ret_sts);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +out:
> > +	mutex_destroy(&priv->ipc_lock);
> > +	kfree(priv);
> > +
> > +	/* Return not maching anyway as PHY ID will change after
> > +	 * firmware is loaded. This relies on the driver probe
> > +	 * order where the first PHY driver probed is the
> > +	 * generic one.
> > +	 */
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> 
> This is not obvious. ret is either an error code, and we want to
> return it. Or it is 0 because aeon_ipc_noop() returned 0 on success.
> But the code then turns that 0 success into a false, does not match.
> I think this last bit needs commenting on.
> 
> With those two fixed, you can add my Reviewed-by:
>

Hi Andrew,

I just sent v7 but I didn't add the review tag just to make sure you are
ok with the additional comments and handling of NULL terminated string.

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