Commit f6085952 authored Nov 03, 2014 by Thierry Reding

drm: Sanitize DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB input



Some drivers treat the pitch and size fields as inputs and will use them
as minima provided by userspace so that they are only overwritten if the
minimal requirements of the driver exceed them.

This can cause strange behaviour when applications don't zero out these
fields, causing whatever was on the stack to be passed to the IOCTL. In
a typical case this would become visible as a failed allocation if the
pitch or size were unusually high. But this could also cause more subtle
bugs like overallocating dumb framebuffers.

To prevent drivers from misusing these values, make the DRM core zero
out the pitch and size fields before passing the structure to the driver
implementation.

While at it, also set the output handle field to zero for good measure,
even though it's less likely to be abused.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

parent 7e295a36

drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c

+10 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -4769,6 +4769,16 @@ int drm_mode_create_dumb_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
		if (PAGE_ALIGN(size) == 0)
		return -EINVAL;

		/*
		* handle, pitch and size are output parameters. Zero them out to
		* prevent drivers from accidentally using uninitialized data. Since
		* not all existing userspace is clearing these fields properly we
		* cannot reject IOCTL with garbage in them.
		*/
		args->handle = 0;
		args->pitch = 0;
		args->size = 0;

		return dev->driver->dumb_create(file_priv, dev, args);
		}

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