[PATCH v4 2/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Validate event/enable input

From: Shravan Kumar Ramani
Date: Wed Jul 02 2025 - 06:10:34 EST


Before programming the event info, validate the event number received as input
by checking if it exists in the event_list. Also fix a typo in the comment for
mlxbf_pmc_get_event_name() to correctly mention that it returns the event name
when taking the event number as input, and not the other way round. For setting
the enable value, the input should be 0 or 1 only. Use kstrtobool() in place of
kstrtoint() in mlxbf_pmc_enable_store() to accept only valid input.

Fixes: 423c3361855c ("platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Add support for BlueField-3")
Signed-off-by: Shravan Kumar Ramani <shravankr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Thompson <davthompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
index 9cc3d4ca53cf..9aa8de1122e5 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ static int mlxbf_pmc_get_event_num(const char *blk, const char *evt)
return -ENODEV;
}

-/* Get the event number given the name */
+/* Get the event name given the number */
static char *mlxbf_pmc_get_event_name(const char *blk, u32 evt)
{
const struct mlxbf_pmc_events *events;
@@ -1807,6 +1807,9 @@ static ssize_t mlxbf_pmc_event_store(struct device *dev,
err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &evt_num);
if (err < 0)
return err;
+
+ if (!mlxbf_pmc_get_event_name(pmc->block_name[blk_num], evt_num))
+ return -EINVAL;
}

if (strstr(pmc->block_name[blk_num], "l3cache"))
@@ -1887,13 +1890,14 @@ static ssize_t mlxbf_pmc_enable_store(struct device *dev,
{
struct mlxbf_pmc_attribute *attr_enable = container_of(
attr, struct mlxbf_pmc_attribute, dev_attr);
- unsigned int en, blk_num;
+ unsigned int blk_num;
u32 word;
int err;
+ bool en;

blk_num = attr_enable->nr;

- err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &en);
+ err = kstrtobool(buf, &en);
if (err < 0)
return err;

@@ -1913,14 +1917,11 @@ static ssize_t mlxbf_pmc_enable_store(struct device *dev,
MLXBF_PMC_CRSPACE_PERFMON_CTL(pmc->block[blk_num].counters),
MLXBF_PMC_WRITE_REG_32, word);
} else {
- if (en && en != 1)
- return -EINVAL;
-
err = mlxbf_pmc_config_l3_counters(blk_num, false, !!en);
if (err)
return err;

- if (en == 1) {
+ if (en) {
err = mlxbf_pmc_config_l3_counters(blk_num, true, false);
if (err)
return err;
--
2.43.2