[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa: fixes for DrawRangeElements[BaseVertex] index validation

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Mon Feb 6 06:39:40 PST 2012


On 02/04/2012 06:14 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 01/27/2012 06:00 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
>>> in check_index_bounds the comparison needs to be "greater equal"
>>> since
>>> contrary to the name _MaxElement is the count of the array.
>>> In vbo_exec_DrawRangeElementsBaseVertex, take into account the
>>> basevertex.
>>> As far as I can tell it is completely ok (though maybe stupid) to
>>> have
>>> start/end of 100/199, with _MaxElement being 100, if the basevertex
>>> is -100 (since the start/end are prior to adding basevertex). The
>>> opposite
>>> is also true (0/99 is not ok if _MaxElement is 100 and and
>>> basevertex is 100).
>>> Previously we would have issued a warning in such cases and worse
>>> probably
>>> "fixed" end to a bogus value.
>>> Totally untested, found by code inspection when looking at bug
>>> 40361 (which
>>> seems unrelated after all).
>>> ---
>>>    src/mesa/main/api_validate.c  |    2 +-
>>>    src/mesa/vbo/vbo_exec_array.c |   30
>>>    +++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>>    2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/mesa/main/api_validate.c
>>> b/src/mesa/main/api_validate.c
>>> index b6871d0..1ae491f 100644
>>> --- a/src/mesa/main/api_validate.c
>>> +++ b/src/mesa/main/api_validate.c
>>> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ check_index_bounds(struct gl_context *ctx,
>>> GLsizei count, GLenum type,
>>>       vbo_get_minmax_indices(ctx,&prim,&ib,&min,&max, 1);
>>>
>>>       if ((int)(min + basevertex)<   0 ||
>>> -       max + basevertex>   ctx->Array.ArrayObj->_MaxElement) {
>>> +       max + basevertex>= ctx->Array.ArrayObj->_MaxElement) {
>>>          /* the max element is out of bounds of one or more enabled
>>>          arrays */
>>>          _mesa_warning(ctx, "glDrawElements() index=%u is out of
>>>          bounds (max=%u)",
>>>                        max, ctx->Array.ArrayObj->_MaxElement);
>>
>> I might split this hunk out into a separate patch.  This hunk is:
>> Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke<kenneth at whitecape.org>
>>
>> And yeah, _MaxElement does make me think "index of the last element"
>> (N-1), not "the total number of elements" (N).  I'm not a fan of the
>> name.

If someone wants to rename _MaxElement or change its definition, 
that's OK with me.


[...]

>> I don't think we want to include basevertex when adjusting 'start'
>> and
>> 'end'.  The final call to vbo_validated_drawrangeelements already
>> passes
>> basevertex, so I'm pretty sure this will adjust it twice.
>>
>> Also, I just sent out a patch (vbo: Ignore invalid element ranges if
>> fixing 'end' breaks 'start') and realized it'll conflict here.
>>
>> I'm leaning toward dropping this code that clamps "end" altogether.
>> It's
>> awfully dodgy already, and trying to correctly compensate for
>> basevertex
>> is pretty much destroying any faith I had left in it working
>> properly.
>>
>> After all, glDrawRangeElementsBaseVertex is just an optimized version
>> of
>> glDrawElementsBaseVertex, so it should be totally safe to just drop
>> the
>> range entirely.  Considering that we've already proven the range is
>> insane, that seems like the safest option.  Plus...optimizing broken
>> calls?  Really?
>
> I'm OK with passing the ranges unmodified to the drivers. And let them handle them. But the drivers (or the hardware) needs to be robust against fetching vertices beyond the vertex buffer's size. I'm not sure if they all do that.

In addition to debugging, the other reason I added the _MaxElement 
stuff was to try to catch out-of-bounds accesses and prevent 
segfaults, in particular for when Mesa is running in the X server. 
Otherwise, one could bring down the X server with one trivial 
glDrawElements call.

-Brian



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