On 21.02.24 18:59, Conor Dooley wrote:
Yo,

I mentioned this last night to Heinrich on IRC, supports_extension() is
broken for ISA strings longer than 32 characters. M-Mode U-Boot doesn't
parse a devicetree, so this doesn't apply there, but for S-mode
supports_extension() looks like:

static inline bool supports_extension(char ext)
{

        struct udevice *dev;
        char desc[32];
        int i;

        uclass_find_first_device(UCLASS_CPU, &dev);
        if (!dev) {
                debug("unable to find the RISC-V cpu device\n");
                return false;
        }
        if (!cpu_get_desc(dev, desc, sizeof(desc))) {
                /*
                 * skip the first 4 characters (rv32|rv64) and
                 * check until underscore
                 */
                for (i = 4; i < sizeof(desc); i++) {
                        if (desc[i] == '_' || desc[i] == '\0')
                                break;
                        if (desc[i] == ext)
                                return true;
                }
        }

        return false;
}

cpu_get_desc is implemented by riscv_cpu_get_desc():
static int riscv_cpu_get_desc(const struct udevice *dev, char *buf, int size)

Thanks Conor for reporting the issue. We should change all cpu_get_desc
implementations to:

int riscv_cpu_get_desc(const struct udevice *dev, char *buf, size_t *size)
{
        size_t old_size = *size;

        *size = snprintf(buf, *size, "%s", info) + 1;
        if (*size > old_size)
                return -ENOSPC;
        return 0;
}

With this change

size = 0;
cpu_get_desc(dev, desc, &size);

can be used to get the size of the information before allocating a buffer.

desc = malloc(size);
cpu_get_desc(dev, desc, size);

Best regards

Heinrich

{
        const char *isa;

        isa = dev_read_string(dev, "riscv,isa");
        if (size < (strlen(isa) + 1))
                return -ENOSPC;

        strcpy(buf, isa);

        return 0;
}

On most extant systems, riscv,isa is a pretty short string - between 10
and 20 characters. In QEMU's default virt machine however, we get:
riscv,isa = 
"rv64imafdch_zicbom_zicbop_zicboz_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zihintntl_zihintpause_zihpm_zawrs_zfa_zca_zcd_zba_zbb_zbc_zbs_sstc_svadu";

Since desc can only contain 32 elements, the size < strlen() test fails
and cpu_get_desc() returns an error and supports_extension() in turn
returns false.

Currently, in S-Mode, there's only two extensions that U-Boot ever looks
for and they lie inside the single letter section, so 32 charcters would
be sufficiently sized, if cpu_get_desc() supported undersized buffers.

I came across this while adding support for a different way of detecting
ISA extensions, rather than running into an actual problem because U-Boot
seems not to actually make use of supports_extension() other than enabling
an FPU that there seem to be no users of in U-Boot at present. I also
assume that using U-Boot in QEMU is somewhat of a rare case, given with
virt you can boot an OS kernel directly. That'd make the impact of this
problem pretty low, given I just happened to notice that in my test
environment no extensions were being detected and the operation of
U-Boot seemed unaffected.

I'm mostly just wondering if, given the impact seems to be rather low,
if I should "bother" making a minimal fix for this that would be
applied to master (or backported? not 100% sure of the release process
for U-Boot), or if I can just fix it in passing while making "riscv,isa"
optional?

A minimal fix would look something like the following:

diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
index 8445c5823e..df508ac4a1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ static inline bool supports_extension(char ext)
        return csr_read(CSR_MISA) & (1 << (ext - 'a'));
  #elif CONFIG_CPU
        struct udevice *dev;
-       char desc[32];
        int i;

        uclass_find_first_device(UCLASS_CPU, &dev);
@@ -47,15 +46,16 @@ static inline bool supports_extension(char ext)
                debug("unable to find the RISC-V cpu device\n");
                return false;
        }
-       if (!cpu_get_desc(dev, desc, sizeof(desc))) {
+       const char *isa = dev_read_string(dev, "riscv,isa");
+       if (isa) {
                /*
                 * skip the first 4 characters (rv32|rv64) and
                 * check until underscore
                 */
-               for (i = 4; i < sizeof(desc); i++) {
-                       if (desc[i] == '_' || desc[i] == '\0')
+               for (i = 4; i < strlen(isa); i++) {
+                       if (isa[i] == '_' || isa[i] == '\0')
                                break;
-                       if (desc[i] == ext)
+                       if (isa[i] == ext)
                                return true;
                }
        }

Cheers,
Conor.

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