[PATCH] drm/edid: fix info leak when failing to get panel id

Johan Hovold johan+linaro at kernel.org
Thu Mar 2 07:47:04 UTC 2023


Make sure to clear the transfer buffer before fetching the EDID to
avoid leaking slab data to the logs on errors that leave the buffer
unchanged.

Fixes: 69c7717c20cc ("drm/edid: Dump the EDID when drm_edid_get_panel_id() has an error")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org	# 6.2
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 3841aba17abd..8707fe72a028 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -2797,7 +2797,7 @@ u32 drm_edid_get_panel_id(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
 	 * the EDID then we'll just return 0.
 	 */
 
-	base_block = kmalloc(EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
+	base_block = kzalloc(EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!base_block)
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.39.2



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