VCN_INFO_TABLE_MAX_NUM_INSTANCES vs AMDGPU_MAX_VCN_INSTANCES

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon May 16 15:13:29 UTC 2022


On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 11:46 AM Ernst Sjöstrand <ernstp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> smatch found this problem on amd-staging-drm-next:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_discovery.c:1443 amdgpu_discovery_get_vcn_info() error: buffer overflow 'adev->vcn.vcn_codec_disable_mask' 2 <= 3
>
> This is caused by:
> #define AMDGPU_MAX_VCN_INSTANCES 2
> #define VCN_INFO_TABLE_MAX_NUM_INSTANCES 4
>
> Can we just drop VCN_INFO_TABLE_MAX_NUM_INSTANCES completely and use AMDGPU_MAX_VCN_INSTANCES everywhere instead (and bump it to 4)?

We should be able to bump AMDGPU_MAX_VCN_INSTANCES to 4 (although it
would waste some memory in the places it is used at this point).
VCN_INFO_TABLE_MAX_NUM_INSTANCES is part of a firmware structure so we
can't change that without breaking the firmware structure.

Alex


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> //E
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