Question to recent Qualcomm CVEs

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 10:48, Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:
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> Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 15:37, Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Monday, 29 April 2024 15:14:18 CEST Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> > It's quite strange that they updated 2.5.0.1 branch first but my
> >> > understanding that there should be updates for the newer 2.7.0.1 branch
> >> > as well (2.7.0.1 branch is also in linux-firmware).
> >>
> >> Yes, I also told them in the support ticket that this is from an older branch
> >> than what is currently shipped in linux-firmware.git. But they told me
> >> that they are working on newer versions (whatever that means) - but they
> >> wanted to  handle first the update to ATH.11.4 (2.5.0.x) and then
> >> step-by-step release it for newer firmware branches. It seem like that would be
> >> up to 2.9.0.x - no idea why there is no (public) 2.10.x/2.11.x for the AP
> >> SoCs.
> >
> > I would like to point out that IPQ6018 doesn't even have anything
> > newer than 2.5.0.1 available publicly.
>
> But I do see WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 for IPQ6018:
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> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware/-/tree/main/IPQ6018/hw1.0/2.7.0.1/WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1?ref_type=heads
>
> And that release seems to be also in linux-firmware:
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> File: ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0/q6_fw.mdt
> Version: WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>
> Am I missing something? Or did you mean IPQ5018 which only has a release
> from 2.6.0.1 branch?
>
> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware/-/tree/main/IPQ5018/hw1.0?ref_type=heads

Ah yes, sorry for the confusion, I meant to say newer than 2.5.0.1
that actually works.
All of the newer public FW than 2.5.0.1 that we tried in OpenWrt will
just crash, we had the same issue with 2.6 and 2.7 FW on
IPQ8074 and it was fixed in 2.9.0.1 but there is no 2.9.0.1 public for IPQ6018.

Regards,
Robert

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