Hi Kim, Herbert,

On 11/05/2014 06:43 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:21:24 +0200
> Cristian Stoica <cristian.sto...@freescale.com> wrote:
> 
>> The error code returned by hardware is four bits wide with an expected
>> zero MSB. A hardware error condition where the error code can get between
>> 0x8 and 0xf will trigger an out of bound array access on the error
>> message table.
>> This patch fixes the invalid array access following such an error and
>> reports the condition.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <cristian.sto...@freescale.com>
>> ---

> no v2 change info?  All I noticed is the additional string for
> "queue manager interface", which, without its implementation fn,

Yes. Thanks for review. That and the updated comment.

> intoduces an inconsistency wrt NULL checking, so this comment:

No. There is no inconsistency in the handling. Please be more specific.

> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg12105.html
>
> still applies.

Which comment? You refer to a whole email. My rebutal still applies
though and I think your version is inferior wrt handling the issue.

Feel free to send a competing patch for review though.

Herbert, consider that without a fix one way or another, there is a
potential kernel attack vector through the error reporting function of
the caam driver.


Cristian S.
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