Re: [PATCH v6] fbdev: fbmem: Fix the implicit type casting

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:18:30AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 2/3/22 07:39, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I assume you will take this.
> >
> > Patch is:
> > Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Pushed to drm-misc-fixes, thanks for patch&review.
-Daniel

> 
> Helge
> 
> >
> > 	Sam
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 03:58:08PM -0800, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
> >> In function do_fb_ioctl(), the "arg" is the type of unsigned long,
> >> and in "case FBIOBLANK:" this argument is casted into an int before
> >> passig to fb_blank(). In fb_blank(), the comparision
> >> if (blank > FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN) would be bypass if the original
> >> "arg" is a large number, which is possible because it comes from
> >> the user input. Fix this by adding the check before the function
> >> call.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003@ucr.edu>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 2 ++
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> >> index 0fa7ede94fa6..13083ad8d751 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> >> @@ -1160,6 +1160,8 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
> >>  		ret = fbcon_set_con2fb_map_ioctl(argp);
> >>  		break;
> >>  	case FBIOBLANK:
> >> +		if (arg > FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN)
> >> +			return -EINVAL;
> >>  		console_lock();
> >>  		lock_fb_info(info);
> >>  		ret = fb_blank(info, arg);
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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