[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix pramdac_table range checking
Marcin Slusarz
marcin.slusarz at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 14:20:41 PST 2010
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:40:56PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is the results from:
> make C=1 CHECK="/path/to/smatch -p=kernel" bzImage modules | tee warns.txt
> grep -w overflow warns.txt | uniq -f 3 | tee err-list
>
> I hacked on the buffer overflow check last weekend and these are the
> results. It has way more false positives than the other bug lists
> I've posted, but it's still kinda neat.
>
> It works like this:
>
> lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c
> 112 for (min = 1; min <= MAXBITS; min++)
> 113 if (count[min] != 0) break;
> 114 if (root < min) root = min;
> smatch thinks "min" can be MAXBITS here.
>
> One bad thing is that if you have code like:
> if (foo == 42)
> frob();
> Smatch thinks that "foo" can be 43 after the if statement.
>
> The format is:
> file.c +<line> function(<lines into function>) warning 'array_name' <array size> <= <offset>
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> Previous bug lists:
> * Putting too much data on the stack
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1002.1/01252.html
>
> * Assigning negative values to unsigned variables
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01222.html
>
> * Doing dma on the stack
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01231.html
>
> * Dereferencing variables before verifying they are not null
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01980.html
>
> (...)
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c +770 get_tmds_index_reg(36) error: buffer overflow 'pramdac_table' 4 <= 4
> (...)
---
From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: fix pramdac_table range checking
get_tmds_index_reg reads some value from stack when mlv happens
to be equal to size of pramdac_table array. Fix it.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
index 2cd0fad..e7be506 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ static uint32_t get_tmds_index_reg(struct drm_device *dev, uint8_t mlv)
dacoffset ^= 8;
return 0x6808b0 + dacoffset;
} else {
- if (mlv > ARRAY_SIZE(pramdac_table)) {
+ if (mlv >= ARRAY_SIZE(pramdac_table)) {
NV_ERROR(dev, "Magic Lookup Value too big (%02X)\n",
mlv);
return 0;
--
1.6.6.1
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