Re: [PATCH 1/3 v4] drivers/bus: Added Freescale Management Complex APIs

From: Alexander Graf
Date: Thu Nov 27 2014 - 09:29:51 EST




On 13.11.14 18:54, J. German Rivera wrote:
> APIs to access the Management Complex (MC) hardware
> module of Freescale LS2 SoCs. This patch includes
> APIs to check the MC firmware version and to manipulate
> DPRC objects in the MC.
>
> Signed-off-by: J. German Rivera <German.Rivera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[...]

> +/*
> + * Object descriptor, returned from dprc_get_obj()
> + */
> +struct dprc_obj_desc {
> + /* Type of object: NULL terminated string */
> + char type[16];

I don't see where it actually gets NULL terminated - all 16 bytes come
directly from the device.

While it's probably ok to trust it, I think we'd still be safer off if
we just make this a char[17] array to always have our NULL terminating
string. That way we're guaranteed we'll never run over our memory
boundaries.

Also sorry for the slowly trickling in comments - I'm just noting things
as I dig through the whole interface :).


Alex
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