[PATCH v5] drm/fbdev-generic: prohibit potential out-of-bounds access

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:10 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
> Am 20.04.23 um 12:04 schrieb Sui Jingfeng:
> > What will happen if the 'screen_size' is not page_size aligned and mmap
> > will mapping in the granularity of pages ?
>
> You need to map at page granularity. If screen_size is not page-size
> aligned, there's this trailing buffer that is accessible, but cannot be
> displayed. But userspace has no direct way of knowing that, so let's
> ignore that problem for now.

Userspace can know, if fb_fix_screeninfo.smem_{start,len} match
the actual offset and size.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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