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

[Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003@ucr.edu>]

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.

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
> >
>


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Kind Regards,

Yizhuo Zhai

Computer Science, Graduate Student
University of California, Riverside