On Saturday, January 6, 2018 4:06:21 PM CET Alan Cox wrote:
> > The only way a user can set this in any meaningful way would be via
> > a NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY netlink message. However, the value will get
> > vetted there by cfg80211's parse_txq_params [0]. This is long before
>
> Far more than a
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Saturday, January 6, 2018 2:10:37 AM CET Dan Williams wrote:
>> Static analysis reports that 'queue' may be a user controlled value that
>> is used as a data dependency to read from the 'ar9170_qmap' array. In
>> order to avoid potent
> The only way a user can set this in any meaningful way would be via
> a NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY netlink message. However, the value will get
> vetted there by cfg80211's parse_txq_params [0]. This is long before
Far more than a couple of hundred instructions ? The problem is that the
processor wil
On Saturday, January 6, 2018 2:10:37 AM CET Dan Williams wrote:
> Static analysis reports that 'queue' may be a user controlled value that
> is used as a data dependency to read from the 'ar9170_qmap' array. In
> order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block
> speculative execution
Hello!
On 1/6/2018 4:10 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
Static analysis reports that 'queue' may be a user controlled value that
is used as a data dependency to read from the 'ar9170_qmap' array. In
order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block
speculative execution of the instruction s
Static analysis reports that 'queue' may be a user controlled value that
is used as a data dependency to read from the 'ar9170_qmap' array. In
order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block
speculative execution of the instruction stream that could issue reads
based on an invalid res
