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Message-ID: <CAMeQTsazxeXgOJcuGZhEH5BX5ZzmOgM-NAjLjj9iypNgTqu-dg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:11:02 +0100
From:   Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>
To:     Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds: Fix a wild pointer dereference
 in cdv_intel_lvds_get_modes()

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 2:26 PM Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu> wrote:
>
> In cdv_intel_lvds_get_modes(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate()
> is assigned to mode and used in drm_mode_probed_add().
> drm_mode_probed_add() passes mode->head to list_add_tail().
> list_add_tail() will further call __list_add() and there is a
> dereference of mode->head in __list_add(), which could lead to a wild
> pointer dereference on failure of drm_mode_duplicate().
>
> Fix this bug by adding a checking of mode
>
> This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs
> differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations
> (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the
> inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or
> the callers, so they constitute bugs.
>
> Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
> positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
> the bug.
>
> Builds with CONFIG_DRM_GMA500=m show no new warnings,
> and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
>
> Fixes: 6a227d5fd6c4 ("gma500: Add support for Cedarview")
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds.c
> index 9e1cdb11023c..56aec41ebb1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_lvds.c
> @@ -310,6 +310,9 @@ static int cdv_intel_lvds_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
>         if (mode_dev->panel_fixed_mode != NULL) {
>                 struct drm_display_mode *mode =
>                     drm_mode_duplicate(dev, mode_dev->panel_fixed_mode);
> +               if (!mode)
> +                       return -ENOMEM;
> +

Same problem here as in the other patches.

>                 drm_mode_probed_add(connector, mode);
>                 return 1;
>         }
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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