Re: [PATCH 0/2] phy: ocelot-serdes: fix out-of-bounds bug

From: Quentin Schulz
Date: Tue Oct 09 2018 - 03:29:09 EST


Hi Gustavo,

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:20:28AM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> This patchset aims to fix an out-of-bounds bug in
> the phy-ocelot-serdes driver.
>
> Currently, there is an out-of-bounds read on array ctrl->phys,
> once variable i reaches the maximum array size of SERDES_MAX
> in the for loop.
>
> Quentin Schulz pointed out that SERDES_MAX is a valid value to
> index ctrl->phys. So, I updated SERDES_MAX to be SERDES6G_MAX + 1
> in include/dt-bindings/phy/phy-ocelot-serdes.h.
>
> Then I changed the condition in the for loop from
> i <= SERDES_MAX to i < SERDES_MAX in order to
> complete the fix.
>
> The reason I'm sending this fix as series is because
> checkpatch reported an error when I first tried to
> integrate the whole solution into a singe patch. So,
> changes to dt-bindings should be sent as a separate
> patch.
>

Much appreciated, thank you!

Quentin

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