Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2023-03-16

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: nvidia: Fix potential divide by zero

From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Date: 2023-03-16 13:34:59
Also in: dri-devel, lkml

On 3/15/23 08:18, Wei Chen wrote:
variable var->pixclock can be set by user. In case it
equals to zero, divide by zero would occur in nvidiafb_set_par.

Similar crashes have happened in other fbdev drivers. There
is no check and modification on var->pixclock along the call
chain to nvidia_check_var and nvidiafb_set_par. We believe it
could also be triggered in driver nvidia from user site.

Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <redacted>
applied all four patches.

Thanks!
Helge
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
  drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
index e60a276b4855..ea4ba3dfb96b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ static int nvidiafb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,
  	int pitch, err = 0;

  	NVTRACE_ENTER();
+	if (!var->pixclock)
+		return -EINVAL;

  	var->transp.offset = 0;
  	var->transp.length = 0;
  
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