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From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
To: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>
Cc: deller@gmx.de, adaplas@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix bugs in *_set_par() caused by user input
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 16:43:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YuvbI8NEpzciTgfc@finarfin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220804124125.3506755-1-zheyuma97@gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 08:41:22PM +0800, Zheyu Ma wrote:
> In the function *_set_par(), the value of 'screen_size' is
> calculated by the user input. If the user provides the improper value,
> the value of 'screen_size' may larger than 'info->screen_size', which
> may cause a bug in the memset_io().

Hi

I did not saw fbdev code in years, but should not this be already checked
by *_check_var() ?

arkfb_check_var():

	...
	/* Check whether have enough memory */
	mem = ((var->bits_per_pixel * var->xres_virtual) >> 3) * var->yres_virtual;
	if (mem > info->screen_size)
	...

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-04 12:41 [PATCH 0/3] Fix bugs in *_set_par() caused by user input Zheyu Ma
2022-08-04 12:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] video: fbdev: vt8623fb: Check the size of screen before memset_io() Zheyu Ma
2022-08-04 12:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] video: fbdev: arkfb: " Zheyu Ma
2022-08-04 12:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] video: fbdev: s3fb: " Zheyu Ma
2022-08-04 14:43 ` Ondrej Zajicek [this message]
2022-08-05  2:48   ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix bugs in *_set_par() caused by user input Zheyu Ma
2022-08-05 16:47 ` Helge Deller

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