linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] TEE updates for 6.16

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Message-Id: <e5bfb069-6adb-4757-a52c-bb3635990686@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 23:14:30 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Jens Wiklander" <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>, arm <arm@...nel.org>,
 soc@...nel.org
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 op-tee@...ts.trustedfirmware.org, "Jann Horn" <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] TEE updates for 6.16

On Fri, May 9, 2025, at 08:51, Jens Wiklander wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Small TEE updates for v6.16
>
> - Remove an unnecessary NULL check before release_firmware() in the
>   OP-TEE driver
> - Prevent a size wrap in the TEE subsystem. The wrap would have been caught
>   later in the code so no security consequences.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Chen Ni (1):
>       tee: optee: smc: remove unnecessary NULL check before release_firmware()
>
> Jann Horn (1):
>       tee: Prevent size calculation wraparound on 32-bit kernels
>

The second patch looks like it should be a bugfix for 6.15 instead,
any reason to have it only in 6.16?

      Arnd