RE: [PATCH v2] drm/dp: Fix aux->transfer NULL pointer dereference on drm_dp_dpcd_access

Yuan, Perry
2021-11-02T02:19:33Z

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Hi Jani:
Thanks for your comments.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:07 PM
> To: Yuan, Perry <Perry.Yuan@amd.com>; Maarten Lankhorst
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> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>; David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>;
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Yuan, Perry <Perry.Yuan@amd.com>; dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/dp: Fix aux->transfer NULL pointer dereference on
> drm_dp_dpcd_access
>
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> On Mon, 01 Nov 2021, Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com> wrote:
> > Fix below crash by adding a check in the drm_dp_dpcd_access which
> > ensures that aux->transfer was actually initialized earlier.
>
> Gut feeling says this is papering over a real usage issue somewhere else. Why is
> the aux being used for transfers before ->transfer has been set? Why should the
> dp helper be defensive against all kinds of misprogramming?
>
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>

The issue was found by Intel IGT test suite, graphic by pass test case.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools
normally use case will not see the issue.
To avoid this issue happy again when we run the test case , it will be nice to add a check before the transfer is called.
And we can see that it really needs to have a check here to make ITG &kernel happy.

Perry.

>
> >
> > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 PGD 0
> > P4D 0
> > Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> > RIP: 0010:0x0
> > Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.
> > RSP: 0018:ffffa8d64225bab8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: ffffa8d64225bb5e
> > RDX: ffff93151d921880 RSI: ffffa8d64225bac8 RDI: ffff931511a1a9d8
> > RBP: ffffa8d64225bb10 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffa8d64225ba60
> > R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 000000000000000d R12: 0000000000000001
> > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffa8d64225bb5e R15: ffff931511a1a9d8
> > FS: 00007ff8ea7fa9c0(0000) GS:ffff9317fe6c0000(0000)
> > knlGS:0000000000000000
> > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000010d5a4000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0
> > PKRU: 55555554
> > Call Trace:
> > drm_dp_dpcd_access+0x72/0x110 [drm_kms_helper]
> > drm_dp_dpcd_read+0xb7/0xf0 [drm_kms_helper]
> > drm_dp_start_crc+0x38/0xb0 [drm_kms_helper]
> > amdgpu_dm_crtc_set_crc_source+0x1ae/0x3e0 [amdgpu]
> > crtc_crc_open+0x174/0x220 [drm]
> > full_proxy_open+0x168/0x1f0
> > ? open_proxy_open+0x100/0x100
> > do_dentry_open+0x156/0x370
> > vfs_open+0x2d/0x30
> >
> > v2: fix some typo
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c index 6d0f2c447f3b..76b28396001a
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
> > @@ -260,6 +260,10 @@ static int drm_dp_dpcd_access(struct drm_dp_aux
> *aux, u8 request,
> > msg.buffer = buffer;
> > msg.size = size;
> >
> > + /* No transfer function is set, so not an available DP connector */
> > + if (!aux->transfer)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > mutex_lock(&aux->hw_mutex);
> >
> > /*
>
> --
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center