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From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch•com (Jason Gunthorpe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] fpga zynq: Check the bitstream for validity
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:47:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161028154740.GC10441@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bed213a-96e3-1891-a46a-234253a2561e@suse.com>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 01:06:08PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:

> The only case we don't check is, if count == 0. If we check that here, we
> can get rid of the count <= 4 check.

You don't think

  if (count == 0 || buf[3] = 'x')
 
looks weird and wrong? I do.

> >The count <= 4 should stay here since it is primarily guarding against
> >read past the buffer in the if.
> 
> If you insist in doing this check, it should be count < 4, because we check
> the first four elements of buf, or do I miss something?

count = 4 and count = 0 are both invalid. A bitstream consisting of
only the sync word is also going to fail programming.

As Michal said, the actual min bitstream length is probably >> 50 bytes

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26 22:54 [PATCH] fpga zynq: Check the bitstream for validity Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-27  7:42 ` Michal Simek
2016-10-27 14:32   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-27  8:50 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-27 14:39   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 11:06     ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 15:47       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2016-10-28 16:36         ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 16:55           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 18:23             ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-28 20:26               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 21:00                 ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-28 22:05                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-29  0:09                     ` Moritz Fischer
2016-10-31 16:23                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-01  6:39                         ` Michal Simek
2016-11-01 15:33                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-01 17:48                             ` Michal Simek
2016-11-08  0:05                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 14:21                                 ` Mike Looijmans
2016-11-09 15:18                                   ` Matthias Brugger
2016-11-09 16:00                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 15:56                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-09 17:31                                     ` Mike Looijmans
2016-11-28 18:00                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-08  0:46                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-08  9:59                         ` Matthias Brugger
2016-11-08 16:24                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 11:12 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-10-28 15:48   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-10-28 16:37     ` Matthias Brugger

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