Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: fix NULL pointer dereference in UMS mode inradeon_cs_parser_fini()

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Wed Jan 23 2013 - 11:07:00 EST


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:09:42AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 21:06 -0600, Ilija Hadzic wrote:
> > Actually, the code path affected by your patch is not executed in UMS mode
> > at all. Notice that radeon_cs_parser_fini is only called from
> > radeon_cs_ioctl which is a KMS-only ioctl (see radeon_kms.c).
> >
> > The equivalent of the fix you are trying to do is in
> > a6b7e1a02b77ab8fe8775d20a88c53d8ba55482e (function patched by that one is
> > the one used by legacy-CS ioctl), which you should go together
> > with ff4bd0827764e10a428a9d39e6814c5478863f94 if you are backporting UMS
> > fixes to 3.7. Both are needed to prevent kernel crashes in UMS mode.
> >
> > -- Ilija
>
> Thanks. I will take a look at a6b7e1a02b77ab8fe8775d20a88c53d8ba55482e.
> I sent back-ported ff4bd0827764e10a428a9d39e6814c5478863f94 patch to
> stable and I will back-port and send
> a6b7e1a02b77ab8fe8775d20a88c53d8ba55482e as well.

While at it, also looks like commit
25d8999780f8c1f53928f4a24a09c01550423109 could also be added to stables.
But while looking at it, while the patch itself is correct, I noted that
there is a possibility of double free: if either of the
p->chunks[p->chunk_ib_idx].kpage[] items are non NULL, we will free it in
radeon_cs_parser_init and also when calling one of the fini functions
(radeon_cs_parser_fini or r600_cs_parser_fini). So either we need to set
kpage[n] to NULL after kfree, or just return the error.

>
> -- Shuah

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Herton
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