[PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c

[PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c

[Gen Zhang]

In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr
is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation 
functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing 
this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check 
this kstrdup() operation.
Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to
the caller site.

Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>

---
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
index a491509..a0e107a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector)
 	 * the last one found one as a fallback.
 	 */
 	fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!fwstr)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	edidstr = fwstr;
 
 	while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) {
---

Re: [PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 22 May 2019, Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com> wrote:
> In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr
> is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation 
> functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing 
> this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check 
> this kstrdup() operation.
> Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to
> the caller site.

strsep() handles the NULL pointer just fine, so there won't be a NULL
dereference. However this patch seems like the right thing to do anyway.

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> index a491509..a0e107a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  	 * the last one found one as a fallback.
>  	 */
>  	fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!fwstr)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	edidstr = fwstr;
>  
>  	while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) {
> ---
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-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

[PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drm_load_edid_firmware()

[Gen Zhang]

In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr
is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation 
functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing 
this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check 
this kstrdup() operation.
Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to
the caller site.

Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
index a491509..a0e107a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector)
 	 * the last one found one as a fallback.
 	 */
 	fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!fwstr)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	edidstr = fwstr;
 
 	while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) {
---

Re: [PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drm_load_edid_firmware()

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 24 May 2019, Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com> wrote:
> In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr
> is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation 
> functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing 
> this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check 
> this kstrdup() operation.
> Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to
> the caller site.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Pushed to drm-misc-next, thanks for the patch.

BR,
Jani.

> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> index a491509..a0e107a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  	 * the last one found one as a fallback.
>  	 */
>  	fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!fwstr)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	edidstr = fwstr;
>  
>  	while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) {
> ---

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

Re: [PATCH] drm_edid-load: Fix a missing-check bug in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c

[Tyler Hicks]

On 2019-05-22 17:55:35, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2019, Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In drm_load_edid_firmware(), fwstr is allocated by kstrdup(). And fwstr
> > is dereferenced in the following codes. However, memory allocation 
> > functions such as kstrdup() may fail and returns NULL. Dereferencing 
> > this null pointer may cause the kernel go wrong. Thus we should check 
> > this kstrdup() operation.
> > Further, if kstrdup() returns NULL, we should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to
> > the caller site.
> 
> strsep() handles the NULL pointer just fine, so there won't be a NULL
> dereference. However this patch seems like the right thing to do anyway.

I came across this thread while triaging CVE-2019-12382. I agree that
the code before was fine but more complex than necessary. There's no
real security impact here since a NULL pointer dereference was not
possible. I've requested that MITRE reject CVE-2019-12382.

This change is a nice improvement, though.

Tyler

> 
> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
> >
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> > index a491509..a0e107a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c
> > @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ struct edid *drm_load_edid_firmware(struct drm_connector *connector)
> >  	 * the last one found one as a fallback.
> >  	 */
> >  	fwstr = kstrdup(edid_firmware, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!fwstr)
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >  	edidstr = fwstr;
> >  
> >  	while ((edidname = strsep(&edidstr, ","))) {
> > ---
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> > dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
> 
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center