From: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] drm/panthor: use local variables for firmware interface counts
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:11:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803141149.68182-1-osama.abdelkader@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803153555.70ca46de@fedora1.home>
The firmware exposes the global group count and per-group stream count in
the shared control interface. These values are validated before being used
as loop bounds.
Read each count once with READ_ONCE() and store it in a local variable.
This avoids reading the same control section field twice and makes it
explicit that the loop uses the same value that passed validation
to protect against self-modifying control sections.
Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
---
v3:
- Add comments explaining the READ_ONCE() usage.
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
index 8411c468bdac..b2ccb81f280c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
@@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ static int panthor_init_csg_iface(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
u64 shared_section_sz = panthor_kernel_bo_size(ptdev->fw->shared_section->mem);
u64 iface_offset = CSF_GROUP_CONTROL_OFFSET +
((u64)csg_idx * glb_iface->control->group_stride);
+ u32 stream_num;
unsigned int i;
if (iface_offset > shared_section_sz ||
@@ -967,8 +968,13 @@ static int panthor_init_csg_iface(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
csg_iface->output = iface_fw_to_cpu_addr(ptdev, csg_iface->control->output_va,
sizeof(*csg_iface->output));
- if (csg_iface->control->stream_num < MIN_CS_PER_CSG ||
- csg_iface->control->stream_num > MAX_CS_PER_CSG)
+ /*
+ * To protect against self-modifying control sections
+ * take a single snapshot from the control section so validation and
+ * iteration use the same value.
+ */
+ stream_num = READ_ONCE(csg_iface->control->stream_num);
+ if (stream_num < MIN_CS_PER_CSG || stream_num > MAX_CS_PER_CSG)
return -EINVAL;
if (!csg_iface->input || !csg_iface->output) {
@@ -986,7 +992,7 @@ static int panthor_init_csg_iface(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
}
}
- for (i = 0; i < csg_iface->control->stream_num; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < stream_num; i++) {
int ret = panthor_init_cs_iface(ptdev, csg_idx, i);
if (ret)
@@ -1010,6 +1016,7 @@ static int panthor_fw_init_ifaces(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
{
struct panthor_fw_global_iface *glb_iface = &ptdev->fw->iface.global;
u64 shared_section_sz = panthor_kernel_bo_size(ptdev->fw->shared_section->mem);
+ u32 group_num;
unsigned int i;
if (!ptdev->fw->shared_section->mem->kmap)
@@ -1035,13 +1042,18 @@ static int panthor_fw_init_ifaces(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
- if (glb_iface->control->group_num > MAX_CSGS ||
- glb_iface->control->group_num < MIN_CSGS) {
+ /*
+ * To protect against self-modifying control sections
+ * take a single snapshot from the control section so validation and
+ * iteration use the same value.
+ */
+ group_num = READ_ONCE(glb_iface->control->group_num);
+ if (group_num > MAX_CSGS || group_num < MIN_CSGS) {
drm_err(&ptdev->base, "Invalid number of control groups");
return -EINVAL;
}
- for (i = 0; i < glb_iface->control->group_num; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < group_num; i++) {
int ret = panthor_init_csg_iface(ptdev, i);
if (ret)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 13:55 [PATCH] drm/panthor: snapshot firmware interface counts before loops Osama Abdelkader
2026-07-28 15:17 ` Liviu Dudau
2026-07-29 12:00 ` Osama Abdelkader
2026-07-31 7:32 ` Steven Price
2026-08-03 12:48 ` [PATCH v2] drm/panthor: use local variables for firmware interface counts Osama Abdelkader
2026-08-03 13:35 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-08-03 14:11 ` Osama Abdelkader [this message]
2026-08-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v3] " Liviu Dudau
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