linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: imx_dsp_rproc: use common rproc_elf_load

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Message-ID: <CAEnQRZBS8nLjVuTv739BjBFEnPDnN0iRkvdouT0ooJrEDDbH4A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 14:25:04 +0300
From:   Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...il.com>
To:     Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>
Cc:     "Peng Fan (OSS)" <peng.fan@....nxp.com>,
        "bjorn.andersson@...aro.org" <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        "S.J. Wang" <shengjiu.wang@....com>,
        "linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: imx_dsp_rproc: use common rproc_elf_load_segments

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 1:58 PM Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com> wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: imx_dsp_rproc: use common
> > rproc_elf_load_segments
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:34 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan@....nxp.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>
> > >
> > > remoteproc elf loader supports the specific case that segments have
> > > PT_LOAD and memsz/filesz set to zero, so no duplicate code.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>
> >
> > I think this change OK, but we have a case with the DSP were reads/writes
> > should be done in multiples of 32/64.
> >
> > We need a way to provide our own "memcpy" function to be used by
> > rproc_elf_load_segments.
>
> I think when generating elf file, the sections needs to be 32/64bits aligned.

Sure, that could be a fix. But some malicious user can crash the kernel
by crafting an elf with unaligned sections.