From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] fpga zynq: Check the bitstream for validity
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:39:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161027143937.GC6818@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0e99b6e-ae72-5c64-34c1-91865d0e00b5@suse.com>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:50:48AM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >+ /* Sanity check the proposed bitstream. It must start with the
> >+ * sync word in the correct byte order and be a multiple of 4
> >+ * bytes.
> >+ */
> >+ if (count <= 4 || buf[0] != 0x66 || buf[1] != 0x55 ||
> >+ buf[2] != 0x99 || buf[3] != 0xaa) {
>
> This checks if the bit stream is bigger then 4 bytes. We error out before,
> if it is smaller.
We do? Where?
> So you should fix the wording in the comment and check for count ==
> 4.
Ah right, the comment reflected an earlier revision that had the
length check here.
The count <= 4 should stay here since it is primarily guarding against
read past the buffer in the if.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-27 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 22:54 [PATCH] fpga zynq: Check the bitstream for validity Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-27 7:42 ` Michal Simek
2016-10-27 14:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-27 8:50 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-27 14:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2016-10-28 11:06 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 15:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 16:36 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 16:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 18:23 ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-28 20:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 21:00 ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-28 22:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-29 0:09 ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-31 16:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-01 6:39 ` Michal Simek
2016-11-01 15:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-01 17:48 ` Michal Simek
2016-11-08 0:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 14:21 ` Mike Looijmans
2016-11-09 15:18 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-11-09 16:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 15:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 17:31 ` Mike Looijmans
2016-11-28 18:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-08 0:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-08 9:59 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-11-08 16:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 11:12 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 15:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 16:37 ` Matthias Brugger
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