[RFC 10/28] drm: rcar-du: of: Increase buff size for compatible variable

Biju Das biju.das.jz at bp.renesas.com
Fri Jan 14 12:54:39 UTC 2022


Hi Geert,

Thanks for the feedback.

> Subject: Re: [RFC 10/28] drm: rcar-du: of: Increase buff size for
> compatible variable
> 
> Hi Biju,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:46 PM Biju Das <biju.das.jz at bp.renesas.com>
> wrote:
> > Increase buff size for compatible variable to avoid stack corruption
> > with RZ/G2L SoC's(renesas,du-r9a07g044l) which requires a buff size
> > more than the current allocated size.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz at bp.renesas.com>
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c
> > @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void __init rcar_du_of_lvds_patch(const
> struct of_device_id *of_ids)
> >         struct device_node *lvds_node;
> >         struct device_node *soc_node;
> >         struct device_node *du_node;
> > -       char compatible[22];
> > +       char compatible[24];
> >         const char *soc_name;
> >         unsigned int i;
> >         int ret;
> 
> What about changing the code to use kasprintf() instead, to prevent this
> from ever happening again?

OK. Will try to use kasprintf. It took some time to figure out the original corruption
issue with RZ/G2L, where string length "socname-lvds" is beyond the limit.

Regards,
Biju


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