Re: [PATCH] platform/surface: aggregator: Fix access of unaligned value

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 11 2021 - 08:30:22 EST


On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:58:48PM +0100, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> On 2/11/21 11:22 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:04:11AM +0100, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> > > The raw message frame length is unaligned and explicitly marked as
> > > little endian. It should not be accessed without the appropriatte
> > > accessor functions. Fix this.

...

> > Also it's possible to annotate temporary variable and use it, but it seems not
> > worth to do.
>
> Now that you mention it, we already have the correct frame length in
> payload.len. Let me draft up a new patch with that.

Good!

> > Side question: Do you think the below is correct (& operator)?
> >
> > sp.len = get_unaligned_le16(&((struct ssh_frame *)sf.ptr)->len);
> >
> > To me seems like you take an address to len member rather its value.
>
> That's the point though, no? The signature is
>
> u16 get_unaligned_le16(const void *p)
>
> so we do want a pointer to the len member. So I believe that is correct.

Indeed. I messed up with le16_to_cpu().

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko