linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] backlight: qcom-wled: fix and solidify handling of enabled-strings

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:56:43 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        phone-devel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        ~postmarketos/upstreaming@...ts.sr.ht,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...ainline.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...ainline.org>,
        Martin Botka <martin.botka@...ainline.org>,
        Jami Kettunen <jami.kettunen@...ainline.org>,
        Pavel Dubrova <pashadubrova@...il.com>,
        Kiran Gunda <kgunda@...eaurora.org>,
        Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] backlight: qcom-wled: fix and solidify handling
 of enabled-strings

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Marijn Suijten wrote:

> On 2021-11-16 15:42:15, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Lee
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 09:34:50PM +0100, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> > > > This patchset fixes WLED's handling of enabled-strings: besides some
> > > > cleanup it is now actually possible to specify a non-contiguous array of
> > > > enabled strings (not necessarily starting at zero) and the values from
> > > > DT are now validated to prevent possible unexpected out-of-bounds
> > > > register and array element accesses.
> > > > Off-by-one mistakes in the maximum number of strings, also causing
> > > > out-of-bounds access, have been addressed as well.
> > > 
> > > They have arrived piecemeal (during v1, v2 and v3) but all patches on
> > > the set should now have my R-b: attached to them.
> > 
> > I can see that.  Nothing for you to worry about.
> > 
> > I'll apply these when I conduct my next sweep, thanks.
> 
> Thanks for that Lee!  Has the next sweep already passed by?  Seems
> everyone is preparing for the 5.17 merge window but these patches
> haven't yet landed on the backlight tree [1].  I'd appreciate it if we
> can make them appear in the 5.17 window :)

No need to panic.

v5.17-rc1 isn't due to be cut for either 3.5 or 4.5 weeks.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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