Re: [PATCH] mailbox: fix a UAF bug in msg_submit()

From: Jassi Brar
Date: Tue Aug 17 2021 - 00:30:13 EST


On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 7:15 AM Xianting Tian
<xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We met a UAF issue during our mailbox testing.
>
> In synchronous mailbox, we use mbox_send_message() to send a message
> and wait for completion. mbox_send_message() calls msg_submit() to
> send the message for the first time, if timeout, it will send the
> message in tx_tick() for the second time.
>
Seems like your controller's .send_data() returns error. Can you
please explain why it does so? Because
send_data() only _accepts_ data for further transmission... which
should seldom be a problem.

thanks.