From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bates <james.h.bates@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
James Bates <james.h.bates@yahoo.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] efifb: prevent null-deref when iterating dmi_list
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:40:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380732056-5387-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> (raw)
The dmi_list array is initialized using gnu designated initializers, and
therefore may contain fewer explicitly defined entries as there are
elements in it. This is because the enum above with M_xyz constants
contains more items than the designated initializer. Those elements not
explicitly initialized are implicitly set to 0.
Now efifb_setup() loops through all these array elements, and performs
a strcmp on each item. For non explicitly initialized elements this will
be a null pointer:
This patch swaps the check order in the if statement, thus checks first
whether dmi_list[i].base is null.
Signed-off-by: James Bates <james.h.bates@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
---
Hi
As James didn't respond to the last emails, I just rebased the patch and resent
it. The efi M_xyz constants were moved to x86-sysfb so if anyone wants to remove
unused bits, please send a separate patch to LKML and x86-ML. This patch just
fixes the NULL-deref.
Thanks
David
drivers/video/efifb.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
index 7f9ff75..fcb9500 100644
--- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static int efifb_setup(char *options)
if (!*this_opt) continue;
for (i = 0; i < M_UNKNOWN; i++) {
- if (!strcmp(this_opt, efifb_dmi_list[i].optname) &&
- efifb_dmi_list[i].base != 0) {
+ if (efifb_dmi_list[i].base != 0 &&
+ !strcmp(this_opt, efifb_dmi_list[i].optname)) {
screen_info.lfb_base = efifb_dmi_list[i].base;
screen_info.lfb_linelength = efifb_dmi_list[i].stride;
screen_info.lfb_width = efifb_dmi_list[i].width;
--
1.8.4
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-02 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 16:40 David Herrmann [this message]
2013-10-02 16:43 ` [PATCH v3] efifb: prevent null-deref when iterating dmi_list David Herrmann
2013-10-19 10:40 ` David Herrmann
2013-10-29 10:42 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-10-31 10:45 ` [PATCH v2] " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-31 16:17 ` David Herrmann
2013-11-01 11:10 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-11-01 12:09 ` David Herrmann
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