> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:03 PM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Borislav
> Petkov <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Subtract any matching Register Region
> from Trigger resources
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 02:04:27PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > > *einj_get_trigger_parameter_region(
> > >           ((char *)trigger_tab + sizeof(struct acpi_einj_trigger));
> > >   for (i = 0; i < trigger_tab->entry_count; i++) {
> > >           if (entry->action == ACPI_EINJ_TRIGGER_ERROR &&
> > > -         entry->instruction == ACPI_EINJ_WRITE_REGISTER_VALUE &&
> > >           entry->register_region.space_id ==
> > >                   ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_MEMORY &&
> > >           (entry->register_region.address & param2) == (param1 &
> > > param2))
> 
> Maybe you should add the other instruction types that make sense here
> (ACPI_EINJ_READ_REGISTER, ACPI_EINJ_READ_REGISTER_VALUE and
> ACPI_EINJ_WRITE_REGISTER) as a sanity check against the BIOS giving you an
> action in the trigger table that doesn't involve a memory access?
> 

Yes, in that case we can do:
entry->instruction <= ACPI_EINJ_WRITE_REGISTER_VALUE

That would cover all the memory access instructions and protect against invalid
instructions.

How does that sound?

Thanks,
Yazen

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