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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Semmle Security Reports <security-reports@semmle.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-mapping: Lift address space checks out of debug code
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 17:03:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201910021659.96269C05@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201910021643.75E856C@keescook>

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:58:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the USB case, it'll actually refuse to do the operation. Should
> dma_map_single() similarly fail? I could push these checks down into
> dma_map_single(), which would be a no-change on behavior for USB and
> gain the checks on all other callers...

Which begs the question: are all callers actually checking the result of
dma_map_single(). Many are paired with dma_mapping_error(), but lots
more aren't...

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02 20:46 [PATCH] dma-mapping: Lift address space checks out of debug code Kees Cook
2019-10-02 21:15 ` Robin Murphy
2019-10-02 23:58   ` Kees Cook
2019-10-03  0:03     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-10-03  9:42     ` Robin Murphy
2019-10-03 21:38       ` Kees Cook
2019-10-04 18:50         ` Robin Murphy
2019-10-04 20:25           ` Kees Cook
2019-10-05  8:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-02 22:37 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-03  0:05 ` kbuild test robot

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