ACK: [PATCH Precise SRU] mei: add mei_quirk_probe function

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Aug 24 13:33:31 UTC 2012


On 24/08/12 13:40, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041164
>
> The main purpose of this function is to exclude ME devices
> without support for MEI/HECI interface from binding
>
> Currently affected systems are C600/X79 based servers
> that expose PCI device even though it doesn't supported ME Interface.
> MEI driver accessing such nonfunctional device can corrupt
> the system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> (back ported from commit a2f6985332d2564e443d9d889ce70f39b3293d09)
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/mei/main.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/mei/main.c b/drivers/staging/mei/main.c
> index eb05c36..44ed7a8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/mei/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/mei/main.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,27 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mei_pci_tbl);
>   static DEFINE_MUTEX(mei_mutex);
>
>   /**
> + * mei_quirk_probe - probe for devices that doesn't valid ME interface
> + * @pdev: PCI device structure
> + * @ent: entry into pci_device_table
> + *
> + * returns true if ME Interface is valid, false otherwise
> + */
> +static bool __devinit mei_quirk_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> +				const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> +{
> +	u32 reg;
> +	if (ent->device == MEI_DEV_ID_PBG_1) {
> +		pci_read_config_dword(pdev, 0x48, &reg);
> +		/* make sure that bit 9 is up and bit 10 is down */
> +		if ((reg & 0x600) == 0x200) {
> +			dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Device doesn't have valid ME Interface\n");
> +			return false;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	return true;
> +}
> +/**
>    * mei_probe - Device Initialization Routine
>    *
>    * @pdev: PCI device structure
> @@ -120,6 +141,12 @@ static int __devinit mei_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>   	int err;
>
>   	mutex_lock(&mei_mutex);
> +
> +	if (!mei_quirk_probe(pdev, ent)) {
> +		err = -ENODEV;
> +		goto end;
> +	}
> +
>   	if (mei_device) {
>   		err = -EEXIST;
>   		goto end;
>





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