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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder</title>
<updated>2010-06-02T17:48:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
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<published>2010-05-30T17:43:52+00:00</published>
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Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check
whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later.  If not force a
compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM.  This was implemented in the
older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core.

An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) which implements 1394-1995 IRM
but neither 1394a-2000 IRM nor BM was now found to cause an
interoperability bug:
  - Camcorder becomes root node when plugged in, hence gets IRM role.
  - firewire-core successfully contends for BM role, proceeds to perform
    gap count optimization and resets the bus.
  - Sony camcorder ignores presence of a BM (against the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt; (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt; (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt;

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .32.x and newer

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check
whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later.  If not force a
compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM.  This was implemented in the
older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core.

An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) which implements 1394-1995 IRM
but neither 1394a-2000 IRM nor BM was now found to cause an
interoperability bug:
  - Camcorder becomes root node when plugged in, hence gets IRM role.
  - firewire-core successfully contends for BM role, proceeds to perform
    gap count optimization and resets the bus.
  - Sony camcorder ignores presence of a BM (against the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt; (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt; (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt;

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .32.x and newer

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: use separate timeout for each transaction</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T22:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-27T07:07:00+00:00</published>
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Using a single timeout for all transaction that need to be flushed does
not work if the submission of new transactions can defer the timeout
indefinitely into the future.  We need to have timeouts that do not
change due to other transactions; the simplest way to do this is with a
separate timer for each transaction.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (+ one lockdep annotation)
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Using a single timeout for all transaction that need to be flushed does
not work if the submission of new transactions can defer the timeout
indefinitely into the future.  We need to have timeouts that do not
change due to other transactions; the simplest way to do this is with a
separate timer for each transaction.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (+ one lockdep annotation)
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<title>firewire: core: clean up config ROM related defined constants</title>
<updated>2010-04-19T18:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-14T20:30:18+00:00</published>
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Clemens Ladisch pointed out that
  - BIB_IMC is not named like the field is called in the standard,
  - readers of the code may get worried about the magic 0x0c0083c0,
  - a CSR_NODE_CAPABILITIES key is there in the header but not put to
    good use.

So let's rename BIB_IMC, add a defined constant for Node_Capabilities
and a comment which reassures people that somebody thought about it and
they don't have to (or if they still do, tell them where they have to
look for confirmation), and prune our incomplete and arbitrary set of
defined constants of CSR key IDs.  And there is a nother magic number,
that of Bus_Information_Block.Bus_Name, to be defined and commented.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Clemens Ladisch pointed out that
  - BIB_IMC is not named like the field is called in the standard,
  - readers of the code may get worried about the magic 0x0c0083c0,
  - a CSR_NODE_CAPABILITIES key is there in the header but not put to
    good use.

So let's rename BIB_IMC, add a defined constant for Node_Capabilities
and a comment which reassures people that somebody thought about it and
they don't have to (or if they still do, tell them where they have to
look for confirmation), and prune our incomplete and arbitrary set of
defined constants of CSR key IDs.  And there is a nother magic number,
that of Bus_Information_Block.Bus_Name, to be defined and commented.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: add_descriptor size check</title>
<updated>2010-01-26T19:54:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-24T13:47:02+00:00</published>
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Presently, firewire-core only checks whether descriptors that are to be
added by userspace drivers to the local node's config ROM do not exceed
a size of 256 quadlets.  However, the sum of the bare minimum ROM plus
all descriptors (from firewire-core, from firewire-net, from userspace)
must not exceed 256 quadlets.

Otherwise, the bounds of a statically allocated buffer will be
overwritten.  If the kernel survives that, firewire-core will
subsequently be unable to parse the local node's config ROM.

(Note, userspace drivers can add descriptors only through device files
of local nodes.  These are usually only accessible by root, unlike
device files of remote nodes which may be accessible to lesser
privileged users.)

Therefore add a test which takes the actual present and required ROM
size into account for all descriptors of kernelspace and userspace
drivers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Presently, firewire-core only checks whether descriptors that are to be
added by userspace drivers to the local node's config ROM do not exceed
a size of 256 quadlets.  However, the sum of the bare minimum ROM plus
all descriptors (from firewire-core, from firewire-net, from userspace)
must not exceed 256 quadlets.

Otherwise, the bounds of a statically allocated buffer will be
overwritten.  If the kernel survives that, firewire-core will
subsequently be unable to parse the local node's config ROM.

(Note, userspace drivers can add descriptors only through device files
of local nodes.  These are usually only accessible by root, unlike
device files of remote nodes which may be accessible to lesser
privileged users.)

Therefore add a test which takes the actual present and required ROM
size into account for all descriptors of kernelspace and userspace
drivers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: optimize Topology Map creation</title>
<updated>2009-10-14T21:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-07T22:42:53+00:00</published>
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The Topology Map of the local node was created in CPU byte order,
then a temporary big endian copy was created to compute the CRC,
and when a read request to the Topology Map arrived it had to be
converted to big endian byte order again.

We now generate it in big endian byte order in the first place.
This also rids us of 1000 bytes stack usage in tasklet context.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The Topology Map of the local node was created in CPU byte order,
then a temporary big endian copy was created to compute the CRC,
and when a read request to the Topology Map arrived it had to be
converted to big endian byte order again.

We now generate it in big endian byte order in the first place.
This also rids us of 1000 bytes stack usage in tasklet context.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: clarify generate_config_rom usage</title>
<updated>2009-10-14T21:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-07T22:42:27+00:00</published>
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Move the static config ROM buffer into the scope of the two callers of
generate_config_rom().  That way the ROM length can be passed over as
return value rather than through a pointer argument.

It also becomes more obvious that accesses to the config ROM buffer have
to be serialized and how this is accomplished.  And firewire-core.ko
shrinks a bit as well.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Move the static config ROM buffer into the scope of the two callers of
generate_config_rom().  That way the ROM length can be passed over as
return value rather than through a pointer argument.

It also becomes more obvious that accesses to the config ROM buffer have
to be serialized and how this is accomplished.  And firewire-core.ko
shrinks a bit as well.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: optimize config ROM creation</title>
<updated>2009-10-14T21:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-07T22:41:59+00:00</published>
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The config ROM image of the local node was created in CPU byte order,
then a temporary big endian copy was created to compute the CRC, and
finally the card driver created its own big endian copy.

We now generate it in big endian byte order in the first place to avoid
one byte order conversion and the temporary on-stack copy of the ROM
image (1000 bytes stack usage in process context).  Furthermore, two
1000 bytes memset()s are replaced by one 1000 bytes - ROM length sized
memset.

The trivial fw_memcpy_{from,to}_be32() helpers are now superfluous and
removed.  The newly added __compute_block_crc() function will be folded
into fw_compute_block_crc() in a subsequent change.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The config ROM image of the local node was created in CPU byte order,
then a temporary big endian copy was created to compute the CRC, and
finally the card driver created its own big endian copy.

We now generate it in big endian byte order in the first place to avoid
one byte order conversion and the temporary on-stack copy of the ROM
image (1000 bytes stack usage in process context).  Furthermore, two
1000 bytes memset()s are replaced by one 1000 bytes - ROM length sized
memset.

The trivial fw_memcpy_{from,to}_be32() helpers are now superfluous and
removed.  The newly added __compute_block_crc() function will be folded
into fw_compute_block_crc() in a subsequent change.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: normalize style of queue_work wrappers</title>
<updated>2009-10-14T21:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-07T22:41:10+00:00</published>
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A few stylistic changes to unify some code patterns in the subsystem:

  - The similar queue_delayed_work helpers fw_schedule_bm_work,
    schedule_iso_resource, and sbp2_queue_work now have the same call
    convention.
  - Two conditional calls of schedule_iso_resource are factored into
    another small helper.
  - An sbp2_target_get helper is added as counterpart to
    sbp2_target_put.

Object size of firewire-core is decreased a little bit, object size of
firewire-sbp2 remains unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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A few stylistic changes to unify some code patterns in the subsystem:

  - The similar queue_delayed_work helpers fw_schedule_bm_work,
    schedule_iso_resource, and sbp2_queue_work now have the same call
    convention.
  - Two conditional calls of schedule_iso_resource are factored into
    another small helper.
  - An sbp2_target_get helper is added as counterpart to
    sbp2_target_put.

Object size of firewire-core is decreased a little bit, object size of
firewire-sbp2 remains unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: fix race with parallel PCI device probe</title>
<updated>2009-09-12T12:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-06T16:50:29+00:00</published>
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The config ROM buffer received from generate_config_rom is a globally
shared static buffer.  Extend the card_mutex protection in fw_add_card
until after the config ROM was copied into the card driver's buffer.
Otherwise, parallelized card driver probes may end up with ROM contents
that were meant for a different card.

firewire-ohci's card-&gt;driver-&gt;enable hook is safe to be called within
the card_mutex.  Furthermore, it is safe to reorder card_list update
versus card enable, which simplifies the code a little.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The config ROM buffer received from generate_config_rom is a globally
shared static buffer.  Extend the card_mutex protection in fw_add_card
until after the config ROM was copied into the card driver's buffer.
Otherwise, parallelized card driver probes may end up with ROM contents
that were meant for a different card.

firewire-ohci's card-&gt;driver-&gt;enable hook is safe to be called within
the card_mutex.  Furthermore, it is safe to reorder card_list update
versus card enable, which simplifies the code a little.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: do not DMA-map stack addresses</title>
<updated>2009-06-25T17:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-20T11:23:59+00:00</published>
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The DMA mapping API cannot map on-stack addresses, as explained in
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt.  Convert the two cases of on-stack packet
payload buffers in firewire-core (payload of lock requests in the bus
manager work and in iso resource management) to slab-allocated memory.

There are a number on-stack buffers for quadlet write or quadlet read
requests in firewire-core and firewire-sbp2.  These are harmless; they
are copied to/ from card driver internal DMA buffers since quadlet
payloads are inlined with packet headers.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The DMA mapping API cannot map on-stack addresses, as explained in
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt.  Convert the two cases of on-stack packet
payload buffers in firewire-core (payload of lock requests in the bus
manager work and in iso resource management) to slab-allocated memory.

There are a number on-stack buffers for quadlet write or quadlet read
requests in firewire-core and firewire-sbp2.  These are harmless; they
are copied to/ from card driver internal DMA buffers since quadlet
payloads are inlined with packet headers.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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