[PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: Avoid printing of stack contents on firmware load error

Jiri Kosina jikos at kernel.org
Thu Jul 1 08:33:31 UTC 2021


On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
> 
> In case when psp_init_asd_microcode() fails to load ASD microcode file, 
> psp_v12_0_init_microcode() tries to print the firmware filename that 
> failed to load before bailing out.
> 
> This is wrong because:
> 
> - the firmware filename it would want it print is an incorrect one as
>   psp_init_asd_microcode() and psp_v12_0_init_microcode() are loading
>   different filenames
> - it tries to print fw_name, but that's not yet been initialized by that
>   time, so it prints random stack contents, e.g.
> 
>     amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/renoir_asd.bin failed with error -2
>     amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: fail to initialize asd microcode
>     amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: psp v12.0: Failed to load firmware "\xfeTO\x8e\xff\xff"
> 
> Fix that by bailing out immediately, instead of priting the bogus error
> message.

Friendly ping on this one too; priting a few bytes of stack is not a 
*huge* info leak, but I believe it should be fixed nevertheless.

Thanks.

> 
> Reported-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at ucw.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>


> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2: remove now-unused label
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c
> index c4828bd3264b..b0ee77ee80b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/psp_v12_0.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static int psp_v12_0_init_microcode(struct psp_context *psp)
>  
>  	err = psp_init_asd_microcode(psp, chip_name);
>  	if (err)
> -		goto out;
> +		return err;
>  
>  	snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amdgpu/%s_ta.bin", chip_name);
>  	err = request_firmware(&adev->psp.ta_fw, fw_name, adev->dev);
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int psp_v12_0_init_microcode(struct psp_context *psp)
>  	} else {
>  		err = amdgpu_ucode_validate(adev->psp.ta_fw);
>  		if (err)
> -			goto out2;
> +			goto out;
>  
>  		ta_hdr = (const struct ta_firmware_header_v1_0 *)
>  				 adev->psp.ta_fw->data;
> @@ -105,10 +105,9 @@ static int psp_v12_0_init_microcode(struct psp_context *psp)
>  
>  	return 0;
>  
> -out2:
> +out:
>  	release_firmware(adev->psp.ta_fw);
>  	adev->psp.ta_fw = NULL;
> -out:
>  	if (err) {
>  		dev_err(adev->dev,
>  			"psp v12.0: Failed to load firmware \"%s\"\n",
> -- 
> 2.12.3
> 

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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