[PATCH] evh_bytechan: fix out of bounds accesses

Laurentiu Tudor laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com
Tue Jan 14 01:34:50 AEDT 2020


Hello,

On 13.01.2020 15:48, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 1/13/20 6:26 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> I've never heard of it, and I have no idea how to test it.
>>
>> It's not used by qemu, I guess there is/was a Freescale hypervisor that
>> used it.
> 
> Yes, there is/was a Freescale hypervisor that I and a few others worked 
> on.  I've added a couple people on CC that might be able to tell the 
> current disposition of it.

More info on this: it's opensource and it's published here [1]. We still 
claim to maintain it but there wasn't much activity past years, as one 
might notice.

>> But maybe it's time to remove it if it's not being maintained/used by
>> anyone?
> 
> I wouldn't be completely opposed to that if there really are no more 
> users.  There really weren't any users even when I wrote the driver.

There are a few users that I know of, but I can't tell if that's enough 
to justify keeping the driver.

[1] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/qoriq/qoriq-yocto-sdk/hypervisor/

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Best Regards, Laurentiu


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