[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: prevent division by zero when asking for chipset power

Eugeni Dodonov eugeni.dodonov at intel.com
Thu Nov 10 13:51:26 CET 2011


This prevents an in-kernel division by zero which happens when we are
asking for i915_chipset_val too quickly, or within a race condition
between the power monitoring thread and userspace accesses via debugfs.

The issue can be reproduced easily via the following command:
while ``; do cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_emon_status; done

This is particularly dangerous because it can be triggered by
a non-privileged user by just reading the debugfs entry.

This issue was also found independently by Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel at gmail.com>, who proposed a similar patch.

Reported-by: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c |   10 ++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 8a3942c..de199e7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1453,6 +1453,14 @@ unsigned long i915_chipset_val(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 
 	diff1 = now - dev_priv->last_time1;
 
+	/* Prevent division-by-zero if we are asking too fast.
+	 * Also, we don't get interesting results in we are polling
+	 * faster than once in 10ms, so just return the saved value
+	 * in such cases.
+	 */
+	if (diff1 <= 10)
+		return dev_priv->chipset_power;
+
 	count1 = I915_READ(DMIEC);
 	count2 = I915_READ(DDREC);
 	count3 = I915_READ(CSIEC);
@@ -1483,6 +1491,8 @@ unsigned long i915_chipset_val(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 	dev_priv->last_count1 = total_count;
 	dev_priv->last_time1 = now;
 
+	dev_priv->chipset_power = ret;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 7916bd9..1a2a2d1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ typedef struct drm_i915_private {
 
 	u64 last_count1;
 	unsigned long last_time1;
+	unsigned long chipset_power;
 	u64 last_count2;
 	struct timespec last_time2;
 	unsigned long gfx_power;
-- 
1.7.7.1




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