Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 6 authors, 2018-09-24

[PATCH v11 03/11] firmware: xilinx: Add zynqmp IOCTL API for device control

From: moritz.fischer@ettus.com (Moritz Fischer)
Date: 2018-09-09 19:20:21
Also in: linux-clk, linux-devicetree, lkml

Hi Olof,

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jolly Shah [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
From: Rajan Vaja <redacted>

Add ZynqMP firmware IOCTL API to control and configure
devices like PLLs, SD, Gem, etc.

Signed-off-by: Rajan Vaja <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jolly Shah <redacted>
This patch worries me somewhat. It's a transparent pass-through ioctl
driver. Is there a spec available for what the implemented IOCTLs are?

Should some of them be proper drivers instead of an opaque
pass-through like this? Could some of them have stability impact on
the platform such that there are security concerns and the list of
arguments should somehow be sanitized?
I tend to agree with this, good catch.
What's the intended usecase anyway? Just a debug tool during
development, or something that you expect heavy use of by some
userspace middleware?
I suspect it is another attempt to make userspace clocks/plls work? Scary.

Cheers,
Moritz
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