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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailbox: fix a UAF bug in msg_submit()
To:     Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
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From:   Xianting TIan <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>
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Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:40:37 +0800
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在 2021/8/17 下午12:29, Jassi Brar 写道:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 7:15 AM Xianting Tian
> <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>> We met a UAF issue during our mailbox testing.
>>
>> In synchronous mailbox, we use mbox_send_message() to send a message
>> and wait for completion. mbox_send_message() calls msg_submit() to
>> send the message for the first time, if timeout, it will send the
>> message in tx_tick() for the second time.
>>
> Seems like your controller's  .send_data() returns error. Can you
> please explain why it does so? Because
> send_data() only _accepts_ data for further transmission... which
> should seldom be a problem.


>
> thanks.