[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t] lib/igt_kms: Fix memory corruption

Modem, Bhanuprakash bhanuprakash.modem at intel.com
Thu Oct 26 04:48:28 UTC 2023


Hi Vignesh,

On Thu-26-10-2023 07:50 am, Vignesh Raman wrote:
> In crosvm, the kernel reports 16 for count_crtcs, which exceeds
> IGT_MAX_PIPES set to 8. The function igt_display_require allocates
> memory for IGT_MAX_PIPES members of igt_pipe_t structures, but then
> writes into it based on the count_crtcs reported by the kernel,
> resulting in memory corruption.
> 
>   # malloc(): corrupted top size
>   # Received signal SIGABRT.
>   # Stack trace:
>   #  #0 [fatal_sig_handler+0x17b]
>   #  #1 [__sigaction+0x40]
>   #  #2 [pthread_key_delete+0x14c]
>   #  #3 [gsignal+0x12]
>   #  #4 [abort+0xd3]
>   #  #5 [__fsetlocking+0x290]
>   #  #6 [timer_settime+0x37a]
>   #  #7 [__default_morecore+0x1f1b]
>   #  #8 [__libc_calloc+0x161]
>   #  #9 [drmModeGetPlaneResources+0x44]
>   #  #10 [igt_display_require+0x194]
>   #  #11 [__igt_unique____real_main1356+0x93c]
>   #  #12 [main+0x3f]
>   #  #13 [__libc_init_first+0x8a]
>   #  #14 [__libc_start_main+0x85]
>   #  #15 [_start+0x21]
> 
> Limit the loop which initializes igt_pipe_t structure to
> a maximum of IGT_MAX_PIPES iterations, ensuring it does not
> exceed the allocated pipe count. This prevents igt_display_require
> overwriting the heap and avoids memory corruption. This fix is
> required for drm-ci to run igt tests on virtio-gpu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raman <vignesh.raman at collabora.com>
> ---
>   lib/igt_kms.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/igt_kms.c b/lib/igt_kms.c
> index 453103f90..f3484a942 100644
> --- a/lib/igt_kms.c
> +++ b/lib/igt_kms.c
> @@ -2774,7 +2774,7 @@ void igt_display_require(igt_display_t *display, int drm_fd)

Why don't we use n_pipes = count_crtcs (before allocating the memory)?

-       display->n_pipes = IGT_MAX_PIPES;
+       display->n_pipes = resources->count_crtcs;

>   	display->pipes = calloc(sizeof(igt_pipe_t), display->n_pipes);
>   	igt_assert_f(display->pipes, "Failed to allocate memory for %d pipes\n", display->n_pipes);
>   
> -	for (i = 0; i < resources->count_crtcs; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < min(resources->count_crtcs, IGT_MAX_PIPES); i++) {

With this change, we are missing the information of crtc index 7 to 15 
in the display structure, aren't we?

- Bhanu

>   		igt_pipe_t *pipe;
>   		int pipe_enum = (is_intel_dev)?
>   			__intel_get_pipe_from_crtc_id(drm_fd,


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