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feat(core): adding safety checks to DMA TC ISR in order to be able to react on longer IRQ disable because the DMA runs in the background and the buffer indices track/info could get lost => necessary to perform re-synchronization.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by bleska

97/100 · Strong
feat(core): adding safety checks to DMA TC ISR in order to be able to react on longer IRQ disable because the DMA runs in the background and the buffer indices track/info could get lost => necessary to perform re-synchronization.

Next to that, debug prints have been added for on the fly debugging purposes.

Code has been cleaned up and refactored.

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit changes the firmware code that controls the screen backlight on Trezor devices using the STM32U5 chip. It adds safety checks inside the interrupt handler that runs when a DMA (direct memory access) transfer completes, so the firmware can recover if interrupts were disabled for too long and the DMA got ahead of the CPU. It also fixes a small off-by-one bug in PWM duty-cycle timing and makes several cleanup changes (comments, debug prints, disabled code formatting). There is no direct evidence in the commit or supplied references that this fixes a security vulnerability; it appears to be a robustness/reliability improvement for backlight hardware control.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal firmware reliability/robustness improvement. Review the corrected PWM index and resynchronization logic during hardware-in-the-loop testing. No urgent security response is indicated by the available materials, but verify whether the off-by-one duty-cycle bug could have caused backlight flicker or hardware stress in prior firmware.

Security signals we found

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DMA ISR resynchronization added to recover from delayed interrupt handling

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Off-by-one correction in PWM duty-cycle buffer index

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Conditional compilation added for TrustZone-specific DMA attributes

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Debug instrumentation added (dbg_printf) under USE_DBG_CONSOLE

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No explicit security claim, CVE, or advisory in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 20/100

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Potential impact 4/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 5/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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