Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: qcom: Don't allow protected pins to be requested

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Mon Jan 22 2018 - 08:55:50 EST


On 1/9/18 7:58 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
+ ret = device_property_read_u16_array(pctrl->dev, "gpios", tmp,
+ len);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ dev_err(pctrl->dev, "could not read list of GPIOs\n");
+ kfree(tmp);
+ return ret;
+ }

Just FYI, I'm still going to have to parse "gpios" in my pinctrl-qdf2xxx.c driver, even though you're also parsing it here. That's because I need to make sure that the msm_pingroup array only contains "approve" addresses in its ctl_reg fields.

+ for (i = 0; i < avail_gpios; i++) {
+ unsigned int gpio = gpios[i];
+
+ groups[gpio].npins = 1;
+ snprintf(names[i], NAME_SIZE, "gpio%u", gpio);
+ pins[gpio].name = names[i];
+ groups[gpio].name = names[i];
+
+ groups[gpio].ctl_reg = 0x10000 * gpio;
^^^^

I do this because I need to make sure that "unapproved" physical addresses are never store anywhere in groups[]. That way, it's impossible for the driver to cause an XPU violation -- the worst that can happen is a null pointer dereference.

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