linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx_kms: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <20171205133019.GS10981@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2017 15:30:20 +0200
From:   Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>,
        Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx_kms: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 03:54:18PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> crtc_state is being null checked in a previous code block, which implies
> that such pointer might be null.
> 
> crtc_state is dereferenced in drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state, hence
> there is a potential null pointer dereference.

This is a false positive. drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state() will not
dereference crtc_state when plane_state->crtc is NULL.

> 
> Fix this by warning-on and returning -EINVAL in case crtc_state is null.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1462412 ("Dereference after null check")
> Fixes: a01cb8ba3f62 ("drm: Move drm_plane_helper_check_state() into drm_atomic_helper.c")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> index a2a93d7..72c3b290 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> @@ -454,6 +454,9 @@ int vmw_du_primary_plane_atomic_check(struct drm_plane *plane,
>  		clip.y2 = crtc_state->adjusted_mode.vdisplay;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (WARN_ON(!crtc_state))
> +		return -EINVAL;

This would in fact break the driver because it would flag an error
whenever the plane is disabled.

> +
>  	ret = drm_atomic_helper_check_plane_state(state, crtc_state, &clip,
>  						  DRM_PLANE_HELPER_NO_SCALING,
>  						  DRM_PLANE_HELPER_NO_SCALING,
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC

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