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From: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
To: Vikash Garodia <quic_vgarodia@quicinc.com>,
	stanimir.k.varbanov@gmail.com, agross@kernel.org,
	andersson@kernel.org, konrad.dybcio@linaro.org,
	mchehab@kernel.org, hans.verkuil@cisco.com, tfiga@chromium.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] venus: hfi: add checks to handle capabilities from firmware
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:39:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fe4e8f0-5aa5-a89b-2f42-e179b218e7cc@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1bbcd06-f888-b466-1b7e-7034ab4004e7@quicinc.com>

On 11/08/2023 09:51, Vikash Garodia wrote:
> 
> On 8/11/2023 2:11 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>> On 11/08/2023 06:54, Vikash Garodia wrote:
>>> The case is all about rogue firmware. If there is a need to fill the same cap
>>> again, that itself indicates that the payload from firmware is not correct. In
>>> such cases, the old as well as new cap data are not reliable. Though the
>>> authenticity of the data cannot be ensured, the check would avoid any OOB during
>>> such rogue firmware case.
>>
>> Then why favour the old cap report over the new ?
> 
> When the driver hits the case for OOB, thats when it knows that something has
> gone wrong. Keeping old or new, both are invalid values in such case, nothing to
> favor any value.
> 
> Regards,
> Vikash

Is this hypothetical or a real bug you are actually working to mitigate ?

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bod

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-11 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-10  2:25 [PATCH v2 0/4] Venus driver fixes to avoid possible OOB accesses Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10  2:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] venus: hfi: add checks to perform sanity on queue pointers Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10 11:24   ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11  5:46     ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10  2:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] venus: hfi: fix the check to handle session buffer requirement Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10 11:26   ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-10  2:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] venus: hfi: add checks to handle capabilities from firmware Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10 11:31   ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11  5:54     ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-11  8:41       ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11  8:51         ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-11 10:39           ` Bryan O'Donoghue [this message]
2023-08-11 16:10             ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10  2:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] venus: hfi_parser: Add check to keep the number of codecs within range Vikash Garodia
2023-08-10 11:33   ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11  6:04     ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-11  8:42       ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11  8:49         ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-11 10:41           ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-11 16:02             ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-11 18:51               ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-14  6:34                 ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-14 14:15                   ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-29  8:00                     ` Vikash Garodia
2023-08-29 11:59                       ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2023-08-29 14:06                         ` Vikash Garodia

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