linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 06/24] drm/rockchip: dw-mipi-dsi: avoid out-of-bounds read on tx

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Message-ID: <20170130181636.1bc81e86.john@metanate.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:16:36 +0000
From:   John Keeping <john@...anate.com>
To:     Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mark Yao <mark.yao@...k-chips.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
        Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/24] drm/rockchip: dw-mipi-dsi: avoid out-of-bounds
 read on tx_buf

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:01:46 -0500, Sean Paul wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 01:24:26PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> > As a side-effect of this, encode the endianness explicitly rather than
> > casting a u16.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@...anate.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>
> > ---
> > v3:
> > - Add Chris' Reviewed-by
> > Unchanged in v2
> > 
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi.c | 9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > index 4be1ff3a42bb..2e6ad4591ebf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > @@ -572,8 +572,13 @@ static int dw_mipi_dsi_gen_pkt_hdr_write(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi, u32 hdr_val)
> >  static int dw_mipi_dsi_dcs_short_write(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi,
> >  				       const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)
> >  {
> > -	const u16 *tx_buf = msg->tx_buf;
> > -	u32 val = GEN_HDATA(*tx_buf) | GEN_HTYPE(msg->type);
> > +	const u8 *tx_buf = msg->tx_buf;
> > +	u32 val = GEN_HTYPE(msg->type);
> > +
> > +	if (msg->tx_len > 0)
> > +		val |= GEN_HDATA(tx_buf[0]);
> > +	if (msg->tx_len > 1)
> > +		val |= GEN_HDATA(tx_buf[1] << 8);  
> 
> You should probably update the mask inside GEN_HDATA to mask off 8 bits instead of
> 16.

Won't that mask off the data written by "tx_buf[1] << 8"?