Re: [PATCH v5] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

[mark gross]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:02:38PM +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
> > > +		possible_values:	A file that can be read to obtain the possible
> > > +					values of the <attr>. Values are separated using
> > > +					semi-colon (``;``).
> > why not use set notation from math classes assuming intergers?  i.e.
> > (a, b)  all integers beween a and b but not including a or b (open set)
> > or
> > [a, b] all integerger betwen a and b including and b?  (closed set)
> > 
> > Anyway its ambiguous if the the extremes are included in the set of possible
> > values as written.
> > 
> 
> Enumeration attributes mean that there are fixed values, specifically not integers.
> Integers are in the "integer" type and explained below.
> 
> An example value that would be seen here is possible_values:
> 
> Enabled;Disabled;
I'm ok with this

> 
> > > +
> > > +	security_area_size = calculate_security_buffer();
> > > +	buffer_size = security_area_size + integer_area_size;
> > > +	buffer = kzalloc(buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	if (!buffer)
> > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > if you hit this error return I think you will leak the wmi_priv.mutex lock.
> > I think this is a bug.
> 
> Yes, thanks this is a great finding.
> Team will fix in v6 after we have Hans' feedback for v5.
Yay! It makes me feel useful to catch stuff like this.

thanks!

--mark