[PATCH] ath10k: double check bmi xfer pointers

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Thu Apr 10 06:42:43 PDT 2014


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 at candelatech.com>
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