linux-kernel - Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID block count and size helpers")

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Message-ID: <87a6aztli2.fsf@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 12:31:17 +0300
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
        Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.linux.kernel@...il.com>,
        Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID
 block count and size helpers")

On Sat, 28 May 2022, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>>
>> It's CONFIG_ARM_AEABI, which is normally set everywhere. Without this
>> option, you the kernel is built for the old 'OABI' that forces all non-packed
>> struct members to be at least 16-bit aligned.
>
> Looks like forced word (32 bit) alignment to me.
>
> I wonder how many other structures that messes up, but I committed the
> EDID fix for now.

Thanks for the fix, and the thorough commit message!

> This has presumably been broken for a long time, but maybe the
> affected targets don't typically use EDID and kernel modesetting, and
> only use some fixed display setup instead.
>
> Those structure definitions go back a _loong_ time (from a quick 'git
> blame' I see November 2008).
>
> But despite that, I did not mark my fix 'cc:stable' because I don't
> know if any of those machines affected by this bad arm ABI issue could
> possibly care.
>
> At least my tree hopefully now builds on them, with the BUILD_BUG_ON()
> that uncovered this.

Indeed the bug is ancient. I just threw in the BUILD_BUG_ON() on a whim
as an extra sanity check when doing pointer arithmetics on struct edid
*.

If there are affected machines, buffer overflows are the real danger due
to edid->extensions indicating the number of extensions.


BR,
Jani.

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center