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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: double check bmi xfer pointers
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:42:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53469FD3.8040001@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397124355-6321-1-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com>

On 04/10/2014 03:05 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> If for some reason copy engine ring buffer became
> corrupt ath10k could crash the machine due to
> invalid pointer dereference. It's very unlikely
> but devices can never be fully trusted so verify
> if the bmi xfer pointer read back from copy engine
> matches the original pointer. The bug looked as
> follows:

Thanks for fixing this.  I'll add this patch to my
tree and run more tests today.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <53461A8A.4030209@candelatech.com>
2014-04-10 10:05 ` [PATCH] ath10k: double check bmi xfer pointers Michal Kazior
2014-04-10 13:42   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-04-11  5:40   ` Kalle Valo
2014-04-11  5:47     ` Michal Kazior
2014-04-11  7:58       ` Michal Kazior
2014-04-14  8:05         ` Kalle Valo

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