[PATCH] vmwgfx: Fix assignment in vmw_framebuffer_create_handle

From: Ryan Mallon
Date: Fri Jan 27 2012 - 16:50:21 EST


The assignment of handle in vmw_framebuffer_create_handle doesn't actually do anything useful and is incorrectly assigning an integer value to a pointer argument. It appears that this is a typo and should be dereferencing handle rather than assigning to it directly. This fixes a bug where an undefined handle value is potentially returned to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz<jakob@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Thomas and Jakob have said that a correct fix involves returning the correct user_handle, but also requires changes to userspace. This patch is therefore a temporary fix only. Because it corrects an undefined handle value being returned to userspace, this should also be merged for stable kernels.

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
index 0af6ebd..b66ef0e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ int vmw_framebuffer_create_handle(struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
unsigned int *handle)
{
if (handle)
- handle = 0;
+ *handle = 0;

return 0;
}



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