On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wah...@i2se.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > please look at > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/process/submitting-patches.html, > because there are several issues with this patch. Most critical one is > that i received it not as plain text. Please make sure that send your > patch with git send-email.
The irony is I had to fight Gmail over your multipart HTML+plain email. Yay email clients! ;) > Am 15.11.18 um 14:18 schrieb James Hughes: > > A previous change (5bfdc1097654) moved away from VLA's > > Please use the commit format mentioned in the link above. And actually, this SHA isn't the upstream SHA. This should be: a1547e0bca51 ("firmware: raspberrypi: Remove VLA usage") > > to a fixed maximum size for mailbox data. > > However, some mailbox calls use larger data buffers > > than the maximum allowed in that change. This fix therefor Which ones did this? In the initial change I couldn't find anything that exceeded 32 bytes. (I'm just curious if I missed something or if something new appeared.) > > [...] > > + /* Some mailboxes can use over 1k bytes. Rather than checking Up to Eric, but I think the preferred comment style is: /* * lines go here */ Otherwise, this seems fine to me. Thanks for getting it fixed! -- Kees Cook