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02-Mar-2020 |
Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> |
net: mlxfw: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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23-May-2017 |
Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com> |
Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process The mlxfw module is in charge of common logic needed to flash Mellanox devices firmware, which consists of: - Parse the Mellanox Firmware Archive version 2 (MFA2) format, which is the format used to store the Mellanox firmware. The MFA2 format file can hold firmware for many different silicon variants, differentiated by a unique ID called PSID. In addition, the MFA2 file data section is compressed using xz compression to save both file-system space and memory at extraction time. - Implement the firmware flash state machine logic, which is a common logic for Mellanox products needed to flash the firmware to the device. As the module is shared between different Mellanox products, it defines a set of callbacks to be implemented by the specific driver for hardware interaction. Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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