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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 00:22:39 +0800
From: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
To: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@amazon.com>
Cc: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in
 gpio_device_get_desc()
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On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:55:40PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:57:42PM +0000, Hagar Hemdan wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:42:21PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
>
> Now I need to test your patch to see what it actually does.
>

Tested.  Fails.  It does what I thought it would - clamps the offset into
bounds BEFORE the call to gpio_device_get_desc().

The appropriate place for this fix is in gpio_device_get_desc(), after
the bounds check.

Cheers,
Kent.