Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: convert bios_hardcoded_edid to drm_edid

["Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>]

Hi amdgpu maintainers,

did you get a chance to look at the patch and the suspected bug?

Thanks,
Thomas

On 2024-06-16 20:14:45+0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> On 2024-06-16 11:12:03+0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > Instead of manually passing around 'struct edid *' and its size,
> > use 'struct drm_edid', which encapsulates a validated combination of
> > both.
> > 
> > As the drm_edid_ can handle NULL gracefully, the explicit checks can be
> > dropped.
> > 
> > Also save a few characters by transforming '&array[0]' to the equivalent
> > 'array' and using 'max_t(int, ...)' instead of manual casts.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> > ---
> > While this patch introduces a new user for drm_edid_raw(),
> > if amdgpu proper gets migrated to 'struct drm_edid', that usage will go
> > away.
> > 
> > This is only compile-tested.
> > 
> > I have some more patches for the rest of amdgpu,
> > to move to 'struct drm_edid'.
> > This patch is a test-balloon for the general idea.
> > 
> > The same can also be done for drm/radeon.
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_connectors.c |  6 +-----
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mode.h       |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vkms.c       |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_encoders.c | 21 +++++++--------------
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v10_0.c         |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v11_0.c         |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v6_0.c          |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v8_0.c          |  2 +-
> >  8 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> <snip>
>  
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_encoders.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_encoders.c
> > index 25feab188dfe..90383094ed1e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_encoders.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_encoders.c
> > @@ -2064,20 +2064,13 @@ amdgpu_atombios_encoder_get_lcd_info(struct amdgpu_encoder *encoder)
> >  				case LCD_FAKE_EDID_PATCH_RECORD_TYPE:
> >  					fake_edid_record = (ATOM_FAKE_EDID_PATCH_RECORD *)record;
> >  					if (fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDLength) {
> > -						struct edid *edid;
> > -						int edid_size =
> > -							max((int)EDID_LENGTH, (int)fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDLength);
> > -						edid = kmalloc(edid_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > -						if (edid) {
> > -							memcpy((u8 *)edid, (u8 *)&fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDString[0],
> > -							       fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDLength);
> > -
> > -							if (drm_edid_is_valid(edid)) {
> > -								adev->mode_info.bios_hardcoded_edid = edid;
> > -								adev->mode_info.bios_hardcoded_edid_size = edid_size;
> > -							} else
> > -								kfree(edid);
> > -						}
> > +						const struct drm_edid *edid;
> > +						edid = drm_edid_alloc(fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDString,
> > +								      max_t(int, EDID_LENGTH, fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDLength));
> > +						if (drm_edid_valid(edid))
> > +							adev->mode_info.bios_hardcoded_edid = edid;
> > +						else
> > +							drm_edid_free(edid);
> 
> The old code here seems broken in general.
> In drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/atombios.h the comment for ucFakeEDIDLength says:
> (I expect the same field in the same struct for amdgpu to have the same semantics)
> 
>     UCHAR ucFakeEDIDLength;       // = 128 means EDID length is 128 bytes, otherwise the EDID length = ucFakeEDIDLength*128
> 
> So as soon as the EDID from the BIOS has extensions, only the first few
> bytes will be copied into the allocated memory. drm_edid_is_valid() will
> then read the uninitialized memory and if the "extensions" field ends up
> non-zero it will happily "validate" past the allocated buffer.
> 
> The new code won't work either but at least it won't read uninitialized
> memory nor will it read past the buffer bounds.
> 
> >  					}
> >  					record += fake_edid_record->ucFakeEDIDLength ?
> >  						  struct_size(fake_edid_record,
> 
> <snip>