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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Alexandru Hossu <hossu.alexandru@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@nvidia.com>,
	Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: tegra-video: add missing error checks in vi_tpg_fmts_bitmap_init()
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:21:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adyZeOe1aL-0cSB4@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260411211006.150782-2-hossu.alexandru@gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 11:10:05PM +0200, Alexandru Hossu wrote:
> tegra_get_format_idx_by_code() returns -1 when the requested format is
> not found in the SoC format table. vi_tpg_fmts_bitmap_init() does not
> check this return value before passing it to bitmap_set(). A negative
> index converted to unsigned would result in an out-of-bounds memory
> access, corrupting adjacent kernel memory.
> 
> Add WARN_ON() guards so that any future SoC addition or Kconfig change
> that exposes this path fails loudly rather than silently corrupting memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Hossu <hossu.alexandru@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c
> index afc7327ef318..e6416ea8503e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c
> @@ -1025,11 +1025,15 @@ static void vi_tpg_fmts_bitmap_init(struct tegra_vi_channel *chan)
>  
>  	index = tegra_get_format_idx_by_code(chan->vi,
>  					     MEDIA_BUS_FMT_SRGGB10_1X10, 0);

This will only fail if we can't find MEDIA_BUS_FMT_SRGGB10_1X10 in
the tegra210_video_formats array.  The commit message makes it sound
like this fixes a memory corruption bug, but it can only happen if
the memory is already corrupted beyond hope.

Please write the commit message to be more clear that this is not
a real issue in existing kernels.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-13  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-11 21:10 [PATCH 1/2] staging: media: tegra-video: fix wrong return type in tegra_get_format_fourcc_by_idx() Alexandru Hossu
2026-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: tegra-video: add missing error checks in vi_tpg_fmts_bitmap_init() Alexandru Hossu
2026-04-12  4:52   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13  7:21   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2026-04-13  7:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: media: tegra-video: fix wrong return type in tegra_get_format_fourcc_by_idx() Dan Carpenter
     [not found] <20260412045245.GA2019381@kroah.com>
2026-04-12  8:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: tegra-video: add missing error checks in vi_tpg_fmts_bitmap_init() Alexandru Hossu
2026-04-13  7:37   ` Dan Carpenter

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