Hi Uwe,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Uwe Kleine-K?nig
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> The imx_ports[] array is indexed using a value derived from the
>> "serialN" alias in DT, which may lead to an out-of-bounds access.
>>
>> Fix this by adding a range check.
>>
>> Fixes: 9206ab8a0350c3da ("serial: imx: Fix out-of-bounds access through DT alias")
>
> huh, this patch fixes itself?
Oops
Fixes: ff05967a07225ab6 ("serial/imx: add of_alias_get_id() reference back")
>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
>> ---
>> drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 5 +++++
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
>> index 1d7ca382bc12b238..e89e90ad87d8245c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
>> @@ -2041,6 +2041,11 @@ static int serial_imx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> serial_imx_probe_pdata(sport, pdev);
>> else if (ret < 0)
>> return ret;
>
> I'd prefer an empty line here.
OK
>> + if (sport->port.line >= UART_NR) {
>
> I would have used:
>
> if (sport->port.line >= ARRAY_SIZE(imx_ports))
>
> which IMHO is better understandable
OK.
>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "serial%d out of range\n",
>> + sport->port.line);
>
> Note that the same overflow can happen when a device is probed using
> platform data (and your commit fixes that, too). Maybe worth to point
> out in the commit log?
That's correct. But board code is tied more intimate to the kernel.
Will update.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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