[PATCH] drm/drm_edid: Read within initialized memory bounds (fix off by one)

Greg Steuck gnezdo at openbsd.org
Mon Apr 19 03:04:43 UTC 2021


This is my first patch which I tested to work on OpenBSD and then
confirmed compiling in Linux.

>From c4f815bf0fa55a3a68caa7c721ea3dd8ac5c3d29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Steuck <linux-drm at nest.cx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:44:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] drm/drm_edid: Read within initialized memory bounds (fix off
 by one)

The problem manifests as a memory out of bounds kernel panic in
OpenBSD which uses this code. The buggy error reporting code path
likely never runs with nominal hardware.

drm_do_get_edid at carp used to invoke connector_bad_edid was num_exts
of 1 even though edid at that point is only allocated a memory block
of size EDID_LENGTH. This in turn led to drm_edid_block_checksum
trying to read memory in the range [edid + EDID_LENGTH, edid +
2*EDID_LENGTH) i.e. outside the allocated boundaries. A similar if a
bit more complicated analysis applies to the other call to
connector_bad_edid. Switching to using valid_extensions limits
connector_bad_edid memory reading to the memory previously written by
drm_do_get_edid.

OpenBSD bug report https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=161794843427437

Signed-off-by: Greg Steuck <linux-drm at nest.cx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 81d5f2524246..f731bf7ac715 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -1831,20 +1831,20 @@ drm_do_probe_ddc_edid(void *data, u8 *buf, unsigned int block, size_t len)
 }
 
 static void connector_bad_edid(struct drm_connector *connector,
-			       u8 *edid, int num_blocks)
+			       u8 *edid, int valid_extensions)
 {
 	int i;
 	u8 num_of_ext = edid[0x7e];
 
 	/* Calculate real checksum for the last edid extension block data */
 	connector->real_edid_checksum =
-		drm_edid_block_checksum(edid + num_of_ext * EDID_LENGTH);
+		drm_edid_block_checksum(edid + valid_extensions * EDID_LENGTH);
 
 	if (connector->bad_edid_counter++ && !drm_debug_enabled(DRM_UT_KMS))
 		return;
 
 	drm_dbg_kms(connector->dev, "%s: EDID is invalid:\n", connector->name);
-	for (i = 0; i < num_blocks; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i <= valid_extensions; i++) {
 		u8 *block = edid + i * EDID_LENGTH;
 		char prefix[20];
 
@@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@ struct edid *drm_do_get_edid(struct drm_connector *connector,
 	if (valid_extensions != edid[0x7e]) {
 		u8 *base;
 
-		connector_bad_edid(connector, edid, edid[0x7e] + 1);
+		connector_bad_edid(connector, edid, valid_extensions);
 
 		edid[EDID_LENGTH-1] += edid[0x7e] - valid_extensions;
 		edid[0x7e] = valid_extensions;
@@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ struct edid *drm_do_get_edid(struct drm_connector *connector,
 	return (struct edid *)edid;
 
 carp:
-	connector_bad_edid(connector, edid, 1);
+	connector_bad_edid(connector, edid, 0);
 out:
 	kfree(edid);
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.31.1



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