Re: [PATCH 08/11] accel: ethosu: Validate secondary streams

From: Frank Li

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 17:18:01 EST


On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 03:33:07PM -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> The command-stream validator records the additional U65 scale and
> weight stream addresses and the U85 weight decoder addresses, but only
> checked stream 0 against its region buffer.
>
> Check every configured secondary stream against the matching weight or
> scale region before accepting a kernel operation.
>
> Fixes: 5a5e9c0228e6 ("accel: Add Arm Ethos-U NPU driver")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/accel/ethosu/ethosu_gem.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/accel/ethosu/ethosu_gem.c b/drivers/accel/ethosu/ethosu_gem.c
> index 9fce7caeeb9a..3d1f4121db4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/accel/ethosu/ethosu_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/accel/ethosu/ethosu_gem.c
> @@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ static int calc_sizes(struct drm_device *ddev,
> st->weight[0].base + st->weight[0].length - 1);
> if (buffer_size(info, &st->weight[0], st->weight[0].region))
> return -EINVAL;
> +
> + for (int i = 1; i < ARRAY_SIZE(st->weight); i++) {

why not also put 0 into this loop?

> + if (st->weight[i].base == U64_MAX &&
> + st->weight[i].length == U32_MAX)
> + continue;
> +
> + if (buffer_size(info, &st->weight[i], st->weight[0].region))

Just make sure 0 of st->weight[0].region is not typo, all weight share
one region?

Frank

> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> }
>
> if (scale) {
> @@ -329,6 +338,12 @@ static int calc_sizes(struct drm_device *ddev,
> st->scale[0].base + st->scale[0].length - 1);
> if (buffer_size(info, &st->scale[0], st->scale[0].region))
> return -EINVAL;
> +
> + if (ethosu_is_u65(edev) &&
> + (st->scale[1].base != U64_MAX ||
> + st->scale[1].length != U32_MAX) &&
> + buffer_size(info, &st->scale[1], st->scale[0].region))
> + return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> len = feat_matrix_length(edev, info, &st->ofm, st->ofm.width,
>
> --
> 2.53.0
>