Re: [PATCH] drm/gud: NUL-terminate TV mode names read from the device

[Ruben Wauters]

On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 16:36 +0100, Ruben Wauters wrote:
> On Sun, 2026-08-16 at 14:22 +0530, Deepanshu Kartikey wrote:
> > gud_connector_add_tv_mode() reads a buffer of fixed-size mode names from
> > the USB device and passes pointers into it to
> > drm_mode_create_tv_properties_legacy(), which calls strlen() on each one.
> > Nothing guarantees the device NUL-terminates a name, so strlen() can run
> > past the end of a slot and, for the last mode, past the end of the
> > allocation.
> > 
> > Terminate each name at the end of its slot before use.
> > 
> > Fixes: 40e1a70b4aed ("drm: Add GUD USB Display driver")
> > Reported-by: syzbot+916c888ba5f1a54c9526@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=916c888ba5f1a54c9526
> > Tested-by: syzbot+916c888ba5f1a54c9526@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ruben Wauters <rubenru09@xxxxxxx>

Thank you, applied to drm-misc-fixes, Cc'd stable

Ruben
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c | 9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > index ea0cca58b7c8..5c0065c876a7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
> > @@ -396,8 +396,13 @@ static int gud_connector_add_tv_mode(struct gud_device *gdrm, struct drm_connect
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	num_modes = ret / GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN;
> > -	for (i = 0; i < num_modes; i++)
> > -		modes[i] = &buf[i * GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN];
> > +	for (i = 0; i < num_modes; i++) {
> > +		char *mode = &buf[i * GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN];
> > +
> > +		/* The device is not trusted to NUL-terminate the name */
> > +		mode[GUD_CONNECTOR_TV_MODE_NAME_LEN - 1] = '\0';
> > +		modes[i] = mode;
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	ret = drm_mode_create_tv_properties_legacy(connector->dev, num_modes, modes);
> >  free:

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