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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-09-25 15:55:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-09-25 15:55:03 -0700 |
| commit | 75467f60a3d14f08f86f2b353298d2826382ff23 (patch) | |
| tree | acd8a7d5b5a675042449386efa5b42ec44d8bf81 /drivers/bcma/README | |
| download | linux-stable-75467f60a3d14f08f86f2b353298d2826382ff23.tar.gz linux-stable-75467f60a3d14f08f86f2b353298d2826382ff23.zip | |
Merge tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipegrafted
Pull IPE fixes from Fan Wu:
"Two fixes for use-after-free issues found by recent LLM-assisted code
analysis.
- move successful policy load auditing under the new policy
directory's inode lock, preventing a concurrent policy deletion
from freeing the policy while it is still being audited
- protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU, preventing policy
evaluation from racing with root hash replacement during preresume"
* tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe:
ipe: protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU
ipe: fix use-after-free when auditing a newly loaded policy
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/bcma/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/bcma/README | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/bcma/README b/drivers/bcma/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f7e7ce46c --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/bcma/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Broadcom introduced new bus as replacement for older SSB. It is based on AMBA, +however from programming point of view there is nothing AMBA specific we use. + +Standard AMBA drivers are platform specific, have hardcoded addresses and use +AMBA standard fields like CID and PID. + +In case of Broadcom's cards every device consists of: +1) Broadcom specific AMBA device. It is put on AMBA bus, but can not be treated + as standard AMBA device. Reading it's CID or PID can cause machine lockup. +2) AMBA standard devices called ports or wrappers. They have CIDs (AMBA_CID) + and PIDs (0x103BB369), but we do not use that info for anything. One of that + devices is used for managing Broadcom specific core. + +Addresses of AMBA devices are not hardcoded in driver and have to be read from +EPROM. + +In this situation we decided to introduce separated bus. It can contain up to +16 devices identified by Broadcom specific fields: manufacturer, id, revision +and class. |
