Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/core: fix the uninitialized use in nvkm_ioctl_map()

[Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:58 AM Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003@ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Karol:
> Thanks for the feedback, the patch might be too old to apply to the
> latest code tree. Let me check and get back to you soon.
>

sorry, that's not what I meant. It used whitespaces instead of tabs
and the headers were also a bit broken. I just suspect that when
sending it something went wrong or so.

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:22 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > something seems to have messed with the patch so it doesn't apply correctly.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 9:39 AM Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003@ucr.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > In function nvkm_ioctl_map(), the variable "type" could be
> > > uninitialized if "nvkm_object_map()" returns error code,
> > > however, it does not check the return value and directly
> > > use the "type" in the if statement, which is potentially
> > > unsafe.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yizhuo <yzhai003@ucr.edu>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/ioctl.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/ioctl.c
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/ioctl.c
> > > index d777df5a64e6..7f2e8482f167 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/ioctl.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/core/ioctl.c
> > > @@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ nvkm_ioctl_map(struct nvkm_client *client,
> > >                 ret = nvkm_object_map(object, data, size, &type,
> > >                                       &args->v0.handle,
> > >                                       &args->v0.length);
> > > +               if (ret)
> > > +                       return ret;
> > >                 if (type == NVKM_OBJECT_MAP_IO)
> > >                         args->v0.type = NVIF_IOCTL_MAP_V0_IO;
> > >                 else
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
>
> Yizhuo Zhai
>
> Computer Science, Graduate Student
> University of California, Riverside
>