From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752219AbeEODxZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2018 23:53:25 -0400 Received: from gateway34.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.148.200]:21336 "EHLO gateway34.websitewelcome.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752060AbeEODxW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2018 23:53:22 -0400 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] media: tm6000: fix potential Spectre variant 1 To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Dan Carpenter , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3d4973141e218fb516422d3d831742d55aaa5c04.1524499368.git.gustavo@embeddedor.com> <20180423152455.363d285c@vento.lan> <3ab9c4c9-0656-a08e-740e-394e2e509ae9@embeddedor.com> <20180423161742.66f939ba@vento.lan> <99e158c0-1273-2500-da9e-b5ab31cba889@embeddedor.com> <20180426204241.03a42996@vento.lan> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 22:31:37 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180426204241.03a42996@vento.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 187.172.56.86 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1fIQgp-003qnB-Gy X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: ([192.168.1.70]) [187.172.56.86]:33656 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 8 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mauro, On 04/26/2018 06:42 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> >> I noticed you changed the status of this series from rejected to new. > > Yes. > >> Also, there are other similar issues in media/pci/ > > Well, the issues will be there everywhere on all media drivers. > > I marked your patches because I need to study it carefully, after > Peter's explanations. My plan is to do it next week. Still not > sure if the approach you took is the best one or not. > > As I said, one possibility is to change the way v4l2-core handles > VIDIOC_ENUM_foo ioctls, but that would be make harder to -stable > backports. > > I need a weekend to sleep on it. > I'm curious about how you finally resolved to handle these issues. I noticed Smatch is no longer reporting them. Thanks -- Gustavo