From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vmwgfx: Fix unitialized stack read in vmw_setup_otable_base
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:50:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F1ED33.9010109@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140131022725.GB11601@redhat.com>
On 01/31/2014 03:27 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> One of the error paths in vmw_setup_otable_base causes us to return with
> 'ret' having never been set to anything causing us to return whatever was
> on the stack.
>
> Found with Coverity
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
> index 4910e7b81811..d4a5a19cb8c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_mob.c
> @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static int vmw_setup_otable_base(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
> cmd = vmw_fifo_reserve(dev_priv, sizeof(*cmd));
> if (unlikely(cmd == NULL)) {
> DRM_ERROR("Failed reserving FIFO space for OTable setup.\n");
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto out_no_fifo;
> }
>
Thanks,
Will queue on vmwgfx-fixes for -rc2.
/Thomas
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2014-01-31 2:27 vmwgfx: Fix unitialized stack read in vmw_setup_otable_base Dave Jones
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