Re: [PATCH 4.4 28/31] video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[Igor Torrente]

Hi Pavel,

On 5/25/21 5:47 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit dc13cac4862cc68ec74348a80b6942532b7735fa upstream.
> >
> > The return of ioremap if not checked, and can lead to a NULL to be
> > assigned to hga_vram. Potentially leading to a NULL pointer
> > dereference.
> >
> > The fix adds code to deal with this case in the error label and
> > changes how the hgafb_probe handles the return of hga_card_detect.
>
> This will break hgafb completely, right? And crash system without hga
> card as a bonus.
>
> > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c
> > @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ static int hga_card_detect(void)
> >   	hga_vram_len  = 0x08000;
> >   
> >   	hga_vram = ioremap(0xb0000, hga_vram_len);
> > +	if (!hga_vram)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> >   
> >   	if (request_region(0x3b0, 12, "hgafb"))
> >   		release_io_ports = 1;
> > @@ -344,13 +346,18 @@ static int hga_card_detect(void)
> >   			hga_type_name = "Hercules";
> >   			break;
> >   	}
> > -	return 1;
> > +	return 0;
>
> Ok, so calling convention is now "0 means detected".
>
>
> > @@ -548,13 +555,11 @@ static struct fb_ops hgafb_ops = {
> >   static int hgafb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >   {
> >   	struct fb_info *info;
> > +	int ret;
> ...
> > +	ret = hga_card_detect();
> > +	if (!ret)
> > +		return ret;
> >   
> >   	printk(KERN_INFO "hgafb: %s with %ldK of memory detected.\n",
> >   		hga_type_name, hga_vram_len/1024);
>
> If the card is detected, 0 is returned, !0 is true, and we abort
> detection....

Yes, you are right! There's a patch that fixes it:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/commit/?h=char-misc-linus&id=02625c965239b71869326dd0461615f27307ecb3

As far as I know, this patch should be queue up soon to all stable branches.

Greg should have more details about it.

> 								Pavel
> 								
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c
> index c35f217db53f..d6a95ea49c64 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static int hga_card_detect(void)
>   	void __iomem *p, *q;
>   	unsigned short p_save, q_save;
>   
> -	hga_vram_len  = 0x08000;
> +	hga_vram_len = 0x08000;
>   
>   	hga_vram = ioremap(0xb0000, hga_vram_len);
>   	if (!hga_vram)
> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static int hgafb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	ret = hga_card_detect();
> -	if (!ret)
> +	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
>   
>   	printk(KERN_INFO "hgafb: %s with %ldK of memory detected.\n",

Thanks,
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Igor M. A. Torrente