Re: [PATCH] drm/gma500: Remove VLA

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There's an ongoing effort to remove VLAs[1] from the kernel to eventually
> > turn on -Wvla. Switch to a reasonable upper bound for the VLAs in
> > the gma500 driver.
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Daniel, can this go via you, or what's the best path for this patch?

Applied to drm-misc-next for 4.19, thanks.
-Daniel

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Kees
> 
> > ---
> > This was a little hard to figure out but I think 32 should be a
> > comfortable upper bound based on all the structures I saw. Of course I
> > can't test it.
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c | 11 +++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
> > index 84507912be84..3d4fa9f6b94c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_intel_sdvo.c
> > @@ -429,13 +429,20 @@ static const char *cmd_status_names[] = {
> >         "Scaling not supported"
> >  };
> >
> > +#define MAX_ARG_LEN 32
> > +
> >  static bool psb_intel_sdvo_write_cmd(struct psb_intel_sdvo *psb_intel_sdvo, u8 cmd,
> >                                  const void *args, int args_len)
> >  {
> > -       u8 buf[args_len*2 + 2], status;
> > -       struct i2c_msg msgs[args_len + 3];
> > +       u8 buf[MAX_ARG_LEN*2 + 2], status;
> > +       struct i2c_msg msgs[MAX_ARG_LEN + 3];
> >         int i, ret;
> >
> > +       if (args_len > MAX_ARG_LEN) {
> > +               DRM_ERROR("Need to increase arg length\n");
> > +               return false;
> > +       }
> > +
> >         psb_intel_sdvo_debug_write(psb_intel_sdvo, cmd, args, args_len);
> >
> >         for (i = 0; i < args_len; i++) {
> > --
> > 2.14.3
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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