Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of some failures

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a lot of error checking in place for the format of the WMI
> descriptor buffer, but some of the potentially raised issues should
> be considered critical failures.
>
> If the buffer size or header don't match, this is a good indication
> that the buffer format changed in a way that the rest of the data
> should not be relied upon.
>
> For the remaining data set vectors, continue to notate a warning
> in undefined results, but as those are fields that the descriptor
> intended to refer to other applications, don't fail if they're new
> values.

> -       if (strncmp(obj->string.pointer, "DELL WMI", 8) != 0)
> -               dev_warn(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%8ph)\n",
> +       if (strncmp(obj->string.pointer, "DELL WMI", 8) != 0) {
> +               dev_err(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%8ph)\n",

A nit: ping-pong programming detected.
Looks like current patch 2 should go at least after this one.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko