Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: quirk: fix write to string constant

[Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 03:21:52PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The quirk version range is typically a string constant and must not be
> modified (e.g. as it may be stored in read-only memory):
> 
> 	Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual
> 	address ffffc036d998a947
> 
> Fix the range parsing so that it operates on a copy of the version range
> string, and mark all the quirk strings as const to reduce the risk of
> introducing similar future issues.

Hi,

indeed when implementing this I was a bit doubtful about the in-place
overwrite approach that I used during the ranges parsing...but since
each quirk was indeed initialized once and its range parsed once, it
seemed fair to use the string itself as a sort of scratch area while
parsing it into integers and avoid the local copy...just I haven't
considered the possibility that such strings could be stored in a RO
segment...and I got no error on my setup....

Anyway, good catch, it is certainly better to operate on a copy.

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>

Thanks,
Cristian