dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Make rcar_dmac_of_xlate() more robust

dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Make rcar_dmac_of_xlate() more robust

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Add an upper bound check for the MID/RID value passed from DT via the
DMA spec.

This avoids writing to reserved bits in the DMARS registers in case of
an out-of-range value in DT.

Suggested-by: Renesas BSP team via Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
---
 drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
index 72572320208dbb9a..73cf1053bed90244 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
@@ -1644,8 +1644,11 @@ static struct dma_chan *rcar_dmac_of_xlate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
 	struct dma_chan *chan;
 	dma_cap_mask_t mask;
 
-	if (dma_spec->args_count != 1)
+	if (dma_spec->args_count != 1 || dma_spec->args[0] > 0xff) {
+		pr_info("%s: invalid MID/RID 0x%x... for %pOF\n", __func__,
+			dma_spec->args[0], dma_spec->np);
 		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	/* Only slave DMA channels can be allocated via DT */
 	dma_cap_zero(mask);

dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Make rcar_dmac_of_xlate() more robust

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Geert,

Thank you for the patch.

On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:44:47 EEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Add an upper bound check for the MID/RID value passed from DT via the
> DMA spec.
> 
> This avoids writing to reserved bits in the DMARS registers in case of
> an out-of-range value in DT.

Is this really useful ? In the normal case, when information in DT is correct, 
this will just add overhead. What do we really want to guard against ? If we 
merge this change, how much further do we need to go ? What other values 
provided in DT, such as reg addresses, do we need to validate them too ? 
Functionally speaking this change does no harm, but it increases the kernel 
size, add overhead at runtime, and only addresses a very limited range of 
invalid DT issues.

> Suggested-by: Renesas BSP team via Yoshihiro Shimoda
> <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> index 72572320208dbb9a..73cf1053bed90244 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> @@ -1644,8 +1644,11 @@ static struct dma_chan *rcar_dmac_of_xlate(struct
> of_phandle_args *dma_spec, struct dma_chan *chan;
>  	dma_cap_mask_t mask;
> 
> -	if (dma_spec->args_count != 1)
> +	if (dma_spec->args_count != 1 || dma_spec->args[0] > 0xff) {
> +		pr_info("%s: invalid MID/RID 0x%x... for %pOF\n", __func__,
> +			dma_spec->args[0], dma_spec->np);
>  		return NULL;
> +	}
> 
>  	/* Only slave DMA channels can be allocated via DT */
>  	dma_cap_zero(mask);