From: Ruben Wauters <rubenru09@aol.com>
To: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org,
tzimmermann@suse.de, airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch
Cc: peter@stuge.se, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+916c888ba5f1a54c9526@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/gud: NUL-terminate TV mode names read from the device
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:59:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0670075c3325e9264b518508f68d35c8e2b56ed.camel@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c3a749f8d377b122ba33fd06825d8faff345006.camel@aol.com>
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On Sun, 2026-08-23 at 16:41 +0100, Ruben Wauters wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 16:36 +0100, Ruben Wauters wrote:
> > On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 14:22 +0530, Deepanshu Kartikey wrote:
> > > gud_connector_add_tv_mode() reads a buffer of fixed-size mode names from
> > > the USB device and passes pointers into it to
> > > drm_mode_create_tv_properties_legacy(), which calls strlen() on each one.
> > > Nothing guarantees the device NUL-terminates a name, so strlen() can run
> > > past the end of a slot and, for the last mode, past the end of the
> > > allocation.
> > >
> > > Terminate each name at the end of its slot before use.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 40e1a70b4aed ("drm: Add GUD USB Display driver")
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+916c888ba5f1a54c9526@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=916c888ba5f1a54c9526
> > > Tested-by: syzbot+916c888ba5f1a54c9526@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Ruben Wauters <rubenru09@aol.com>
>
> Thank you, applied to drm-misc-fixes, Cc'd stable
Hello, my apologies, upon checking other patches received, I found a
better implementation that returns an error and avoids truncating, as
such that one will be applied over this one instead, apologies for any
confusion.
Ruben
>
> Ruben
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c | 9 +++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > > index ea0cca58b7c8..5c0065c876a7 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > > @@ -396,8 +396,13 @@ static int gud_connector_add_tv_mode(struct gud_device *gdrm, struct drm_connect
> > > }
> > >
> > > num_modes = ret / GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN;
> > > - for (i = 0; i < num_modes; i++)
> > > - modes[i] = &buf[i * GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN];
> > > + for (i = 0; i < num_modes; i++) {
> > > + char *mode = &buf[i * GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN];
> > > +
> > > + /* The device is not trusted to NUL-terminate the name */
> > > + mode[GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN - 1] = '\0';
> > > + modes[i] = mode;
> > > + }
> > >
> > > ret = drm_mode_create_tv_properties_legacy(connector->dev, num_modes, modes);
> > > free:
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-23 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-16 8:52 [PATCH] drm/gud: NUL-terminate TV mode names read from the device Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-08-16 9:00 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-17 15:36 ` Ruben Wauters
2026-08-17 15:36 ` Ruben Wauters
2026-08-23 15:41 ` Ruben Wauters
2026-08-23 15:59 ` Ruben Wauters [this message]
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