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Re: [PATCH] ath10k: double check bmi xfer pointers

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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

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

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