Re: [PATCH] mailbox: pcc: Don't access an unmapped memory address space

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On 6 April 2016 at 13:49, Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The acpi_pcc_probe() is accessing memory outside of the PCCT table

NIT: s/is/could end up

> space causing the kernel panic(). Increment the pcct_entry pointer
> after parsing 'HW-reduced Communications Subspace' to fix the
> problem. This change also enables the parsing of subtable at index 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching this. Looks like this slipped through in the PCC
doorbell optimization patch.

Acked-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> index 0ddf638..043828d 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> @@ -361,8 +361,6 @@ static int __init acpi_pcc_probe(void)
>                 struct acpi_generic_address *db_reg;
>                 struct acpi_pcct_hw_reduced *pcct_ss;
>                 pcc_mbox_channels[i].con_priv = pcct_entry;
> -               pcct_entry = (struct acpi_subtable_header *)
> -                       ((unsigned long) pcct_entry + pcct_entry->length);
>
>                 /* If doorbell is in system memory cache the virt address */
>                 pcct_ss = (struct acpi_pcct_hw_reduced *)pcct_entry;
> @@ -370,6 +368,8 @@ static int __init acpi_pcc_probe(void)
>                 if (db_reg->space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY)
>                         pcc_doorbell_vaddr[i] = acpi_os_ioremap(db_reg->address,
>                                                         db_reg->bit_width/8);
> +               pcct_entry = (struct acpi_subtable_header *)
> +                       ((unsigned long) pcct_entry + pcct_entry->length);
>         }
>
>         pcc_mbox_ctrl.num_chans = count;
> --
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>
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