Re: [PATCH] evh_bytechan: fix out of bounds accesses
From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Date: 2020-01-14 09:21:09
On 14.01.2020 03:10, Michael Ellerman wrote:
Laurentiu Tudor [off-list ref] writes:quoted
Hello, On 13.01.2020 15:48, Timur Tabi wrote:quoted
On 1/13/20 6:26 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:quoted
I've never heard of it, and I have no idea how to test it. It's not used by qemu, I guess there is/was a Freescale hypervisor that used it.Yes, there is/was a Freescale hypervisor that I and a few others worked on. I've added a couple people on CC that might be able to tell the current disposition of it.More info on this: it's opensource and it's published here [1]. We still claim to maintain it but there wasn't much activity past years, as one might notice.quoted
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But maybe it's time to remove it if it's not being maintained/used by anyone?I wouldn't be completely opposed to that if there really are no more users. There really weren't any users even when I wrote the driver.There are a few users that I know of, but I can't tell if that's enough to justify keeping the driver.It is, I don't want to remove code that people are actually using, unless it's causing unsustainable maintenance burden. But this should be easy enough to get fixed.
Right. I see that Stephen already came up with a proposal for a fix.
Could you or someone else at NXP volunteer to maintain this driver? That shouldn't involve much work, other than fixing small things like this warning.
I can offer myself. I'll send a MAINTAINERS patch if nobody is against it. --- Best Regards, Laurentiu