linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

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Message-ID: <11431.1303949729@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:15:29 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM DMA mapping TODO, v1

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:08:28 BST, Catalin Marinas said:

> The current version of the ARM ARM says "unpredictable". But this
> general definition of "unpredictable" does not allow it to deadlock
> (hardware) or have security implications. It is however allowed to
> corrupt data.

Not allowed to have security implications, but is allowed to corrupt data.

*boggle* :)

(The problem being, of course, that if the attacker is able to predict/control
what gets corrupted, it can easily end up leveraged into a security implication.)

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