[BUG] Intel xorg driver 2.20.2 overlay off-by-one bug

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Aug 13 11:27:23 PDT 2012


On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:01:44 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> While reading through the Intel driver code, I spotted this in
> I830SetPortAttributeOverlay:
> 
>         } else if (attribute == xvPipe) {
>                 xf86CrtcConfigPtr xf86_config = XF86_CRTC_CONFIG_PTR(scrn);
>                 if ((value < -1) || (value > xf86_config->num_crtc))
>                         return BadValue;
>                 if (value < 0)
>                         adaptor_priv->desired_crtc = NULL;
>                 else
>                         adaptor_priv->desired_crtc = xf86_config->crtc[value];
> 
> This allows value == xf86_config->num_crtc to be valid, which would be
> the CRTC number _after_ the last one in the array.  Presumably this is
> not desired, and the test should be ">=".

Thanks for bringing this to our attention and poking Dave, who promptly
pushed a patch to fix the bug.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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