linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] coresight: dynamic-replicator: Fix handling of multiple connections

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Date:   Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:16:59 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
Cc:     mike.leach@...aro.org, mathieu.poirier@...aro.org,
        leo.yan@...aro.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, suzuki.poulose@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] coresight: dynamic-replicator: Fix handling of multiple connections

Quoting Suzuki K Poulose (2020-04-08 15:43:47)
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 08:48:54PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, I can test it out.
> 
> Please find the untested patch below.
> 
> ---8>---
> 
> [untested] coresight: Fix support for sparse port numbers
> 
> On some systems the firmware may not describe all the ports
> connected to a component (e.g, for security reasons). This
> could be especially problematic for "funnels" where we could
> end up in modifying memory beyond the allocated space for
> refcounts.
> 
> e.g, for a funnel with input ports listed 0, 3, 5, nr_inport = 3.
> However the we could access refcnts[5] while checking for
> references.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> ---

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Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>