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[PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] drm/exynos: vidi: fix to avoid directly dereferencing user pointer

From: Jeongjun Park <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-27 03:26:26
Also in: dri-devel, linux-samsung-soc, lkml, stable
Subsystem: drm drivers, drm drivers for exynos, the rest · Maintainers: David Airlie, Simona Vetter, Inki Dae, Seung-Woo Kim, Kyungmin Park, Linus Torvalds

[ Upstream commit d4c98c077c7fb2dfdece7d605e694b5ea2665085 ]

In vidi_connection_ioctl(), vidi->edid(user pointer) is directly
dereferenced in the kernel.

This allows arbitrary kernel memory access from the user space, so instead
of directly accessing the user pointer in the kernel, we should modify it
to copy edid to kernel memory using copy_from_user() and use it.

Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
index 1fe297d512e7..601406b640c7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
@@ -251,13 +251,27 @@ int vidi_connection_ioctl(struct drm_device *drm_dev, void *data,
 
 	if (vidi->connection) {
 		const struct drm_edid *drm_edid;
-		const struct edid *raw_edid;
+		const void __user *edid_userptr = u64_to_user_ptr(vidi->edid);
+		void *edid_buf;
+		struct edid hdr;
 		size_t size;
 
-		raw_edid = (const struct edid *)(unsigned long)vidi->edid;
-		size = (raw_edid->extensions + 1) * EDID_LENGTH;
+		if (copy_from_user(&hdr, edid_userptr, sizeof(hdr)))
+			return -EFAULT;
 
-		drm_edid = drm_edid_alloc(raw_edid, size);
+		size = (hdr.extensions + 1) * EDID_LENGTH;
+
+		edid_buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!edid_buf)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		if (copy_from_user(edid_buf, edid_userptr, size)) {
+			kfree(edid_buf);
+			return -EFAULT;
+		}
+
+		drm_edid = drm_edid_alloc(edid_buf, size);
+		kfree(edid_buf);
 		if (!drm_edid)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
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