Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2013-11-01

Re: [PATCH v3] efifb: prevent null-deref when iterating dmi_list

From: Tomi Valkeinen <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-29 10:42:15
Also in: lkml

On 02/10/13 19:43, David Herrmann wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: James Bates <redacted>

The dmi_list array is initialized using gnu designated initializers, and
therefore may contain fewer explicitly defined entries as there are
elements in it. This is because the enum above with M_xyz constants
contains more items than the designated initializer. Those elements not
explicitly initialized are implicitly set to 0.

Now efifb_setup() loops through all these array elements, and performs
a strcmp on each item. For non explicitly initialized elements this will
be a null pointer:

This patch swaps the check order in the if statement, thus checks first
whether dmi_list[i].base is null.

Signed-off-by: James Bates <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <redacted>
---
v3: fixes the "Author" field and James' email address

 drivers/video/efifb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
index 7f9ff75..fcb9500 100644
--- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static int efifb_setup(char *options)
 			if (!*this_opt) continue;
 
 			for (i = 0; i < M_UNKNOWN; i++) {
-				if (!strcmp(this_opt, efifb_dmi_list[i].optname) &&
-				    efifb_dmi_list[i].base != 0) {
+				if (efifb_dmi_list[i].base != 0 &&
+				    !strcmp(this_opt, efifb_dmi_list[i].optname)) {
 					screen_info.lfb_base = efifb_dmi_list[i].base;
 					screen_info.lfb_linelength = efifb_dmi_list[i].stride;
 					screen_info.lfb_width = efifb_dmi_list[i].width;
Thanks, queued for 3.13.

 Tomi

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