Re: [PATCH 03/14] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Ben Widawsky wrote:

> > I haven't seen the update to 8.2.8.4.5 to know yet :)
> > 
> > You make a good point of at least being able to interact with the driver.  
> > I think you could argue that if the driver binds, then the payload size is 
> > accepted, in which case it would be strange to get an EINVAL when using 
> > the ioctl with anything >1MB.
> > 
> > Concern was that if we mask off the reserved bits from the command 
> > register that we could be masking part of the payload size that is being 
> > passed if the accepted max is >1MB.  Idea was to avoid any possibility of 
> > this inconsistency.  If this is being checked for ioctl, seems like it's 
> > checking reserved bits.
> > 
> > But maybe I should just wait for the spec update.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't hold your breath (it would be an errata in this case anyway).
> My preference would be to just allow allow mailbox payload size to be 2^31 and
> not deal with this.
> 
> My question was how strongly do you feel it's an error that should prevent
> binding.
> 

I don't have an objection to binding, but doesn't this require that the 
check in cxl_validate_cmd_from_user() guarantees send_cmd->size_in cannot 
be greater than 1MB?