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Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Apr 1 20:28:18 PDT 2012


Under some circumstances, pci_map_rom() can return a valid mapping
but a size of 0 (if it cannot find an image in the header).

This causes nouveau to try to kmalloc() a 0 sized pointer and
dereference it, which crashes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

Please send to Linus asap, without this, it crashes on the G5

 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
index 637afe7..80963d0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
@@ -177,14 +177,15 @@ bios_shadow_pci(struct nvbios *bios)
 
 	if (!pci_enable_rom(pdev)) {
 		void __iomem *rom = pci_map_rom(pdev, &length);
-		if (rom) {
+		if (rom && length) {
 			bios->data = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (bios->data) {
 				memcpy_fromio(bios->data, rom, length);
 				bios->length = length;
 			}
-			pci_unmap_rom(pdev, rom);
 		}
+		if (rom)
+			pci_unmap_rom(pdev, rom);
 
 		pci_disable_rom(pdev);
 	}
-- 
1.7.9.5





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