linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/edid: Fix crash with zero/invalid EDID

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Date:   Mon, 4 Oct 2021 19:14:32 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        oliver.sang@...el.com, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/edid: Fix crash with zero/invalid EDID

Hi Douglas,

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:22 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
> In the commit bac9c2948224 ("drm/edid: Break out reading block 0 of
> the EDID") I broke out reading the base block of the EDID to its own
> function. Unfortunately, when I did that I messed up the handling when
> drm_edid_is_zero() indicated that we had an EDID that was all 0x00 or
> when we went through 4 loops and didn't get a valid EDID. Specifically
> I needed to pass the broken EDID to connector_bad_edid() but now I was
> passing an error-pointer.
>
> Let's re-jigger things so we can pass the bad EDID in properly.
>
> Fixes: bac9c2948224 ("drm/edid: Break out reading block 0 of the EDID")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

The crash is was seeing is gone, so
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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