linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] spi: spi-mtk-nor: fix timeout calculation overflow

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Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:01:12 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, bayi.cheng@...iatek.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] spi: spi-mtk-nor: fix timeout calculation overflow

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 07:49:02PM +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote:

>  		if ((op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_IN) &&
>  		    mtk_nor_match_read(op)) {
> +			// limit size to prevent timeout calculation overflow
> +			if (op->data.nbytes > 0x400000)
> +				op->data.nbytes = 0x400000;

If there's a limit on transfer sizes there should also be a
max_transfer_size or max_message_size set (which we should pay attention
to in the core for flash stuff but IIRC we didn't do that yet).

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