From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Ben Skeggs <skeggsb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix ramht wraparound
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:02:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121221080217.GA3108@joi.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121221001548.GA3839-6RkuLLNOGXsZ315U/fw+0NvLeJWuRmrY@public.gmane.org>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:15:48AM +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:37:12PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> > When hash collision occurs and it's near ramht object boundary, we could
> > read and possibly overwrite some memory after ramht object.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > Cc: stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/ramht.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/ramht.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/ramht.c
> > index 86a6404..6da314c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/ramht.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/core/ramht.c
> > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ nouveau_ramht_insert(struct nouveau_ramht *ramht, int chid,
> > }
> >
> > co += 8;
> > - if (co >= nv_gpuobj(ramht)->size)
> > + if (co + 8 > nv_gpuobj(ramht)->size)
> I might just be really tired, but, how exactly is the original wrong?
> The original could even just be (co == size) and still work correctly as
> far as I can tell.
Ah, crap, I didn't see that both hash value and ramht->size are divisible by 8.
So original code is correct (although it relies on the above) and my version
does not really fix anything.
Marcin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-21 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-20 22:37 [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix ramht wraparound Marcin Slusarz
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2012-12-21 0:15 ` Ben Skeggs
[not found] ` <20121221001548.GA3839-6RkuLLNOGXsZ315U/fw+0NvLeJWuRmrY@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-21 8:02 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
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