Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops).

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Sat Oct 20 2012 - 16:34:52 EST


On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:28:46PM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:42:38PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > On 20.10.2012, Martin Peres wrote:
> >
> > > Can you test the attached patch too ? I rebased the previous one I sent on
> > > top on 3.7-rc1 as I accidentally used an older version.
> >
> > Yes, of course.
> >
> > Tried it. Unfortunately, the crash remains the same as reported.
>
> Try this one.
>
> Now, the question is: could 3.6 kernel get VBIOS by ACPI?
> If yes, please mount debugfs and send vbios.rom to me please.
> (cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom > vbios.rom)
>
> ---
> From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: validate vbios size
>
> Without checking, we could detect vbios size as 0, allocate 0-byte array
> (kmalloc returns invalid pointer for such allocation) and crash in
> nouveau_bios_score while checking for vbios signature.
>
> Reported-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx>

And of course:
Reported-by: PaweÅ Sikora <pawel.sikora@xxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c
> index dcb5c2b..824eea0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/base.c
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ nouveau_bios_shadow_of(struct nouveau_bios *bios)
> }
>
> data = of_get_property(dn, "NVDA,BMP", &size);
> - if (data) {
> + if (data && size) {
> bios->size = size;
> bios->data = kmalloc(bios->size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (bios->data)
> @@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ nouveau_bios_shadow_pramin(struct nouveau_bios *bios)
> goto out;
>
> bios->size = nv_rd08(bios, 0x700002) * 512;
> + if (!bios->size)
> + goto out;
> +
> bios->data = kmalloc(bios->size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (bios->data) {
> for (i = 0; i < bios->size; i++)
> @@ -155,6 +158,9 @@ nouveau_bios_shadow_prom(struct nouveau_bios *bios)
>
> /* read entire bios image to system memory */
> bios->size = nv_rd08(bios, 0x300002) * 512;
> + if (!bios->size)
> + goto out;
> +
> bios->data = kmalloc(bios->size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (bios->data) {
> for (i = 0; i < bios->size; i++)
> @@ -194,6 +200,8 @@ nouveau_bios_shadow_acpi(struct nouveau_bios *bios)
> bios->size = 0;
> if (nouveau_acpi_get_bios_chunk(data, 0, 3) == 3)
> bios->size = data[2] * 512;
> + if (!bios->size)
> + return;
>
> bios->data = kmalloc(bios->size, GFP_KERNEL);
> for (i = 0; bios->data && i < bios->size; i += cnt) {
> @@ -229,12 +237,14 @@ nouveau_bios_shadow_pci(struct nouveau_bios *bios)
> static int
> nouveau_bios_score(struct nouveau_bios *bios, const bool writeable)
> {
> - if (!bios->data || bios->data[0] != 0x55 || bios->data[1] != 0xAA) {
> + if (bios->size < 3 || !bios->data || bios->data[0] != 0x55 ||
> + bios->data[1] != 0xAA) {
> nv_info(bios, "... signature not found\n");
> return 0;
> }
>
> - if (nvbios_checksum(bios->data, bios->data[2] * 512)) {
> + if (nvbios_checksum(bios->data,
> + min_t(u32, bios->data[2] * 512, bios->size))) {
> nv_info(bios, "... checksum invalid\n");
> /* if a ro image is somewhat bad, it's probably all rubbish */
> return writeable ? 2 : 1;
> --
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