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Improve checks for MCTP control protocol messages #33

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This series implements more checking on MCTP control protocol responses: that they have the correct opcode and IID values from the request.

In doing so, we use a common error checking path.

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I have some improvements in mind for this, converting to draft.

@jk-ozlabs jk-ozlabs marked this pull request as draft February 6, 2024 23:44
Currently we ignore the IID and opcode fields in control protocol
response messages. This means we may get a delayed response from an
endpoint, it may be interpreted incorrectly as a response to the next
message.

Instead, allocate new IIDs for each message, then check the IIDs in
responses. We do this through a new common response validation function,
mctp_ctrl_validate_response.

This requires some additional string building for error messages.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
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