[PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: validate vendor descriptor items
From: Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-06 09:30:45
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dri-devel, lkml
Subsystem:
displaylink usb 2.0 framebuffer driver (udlfb), framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Bernie Thompson, Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds
dlfb_parse_vendor_descriptor() walks key-length-value items inside the DisplayLink vendor descriptor. Require each item to contain its key, length and declared value bytes before reading item-specific fields such as max_area. Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <redacted> --- drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
index fdbb8671a810..e78d6f95c9c5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c@@ -1586,19 +1586,29 @@ static int dlfb_parse_vendor_descriptor(struct dlfb_data *dlfb, desc += 5; /* the fixed header we've already parsed */ while (desc < desc_end) { + char *value; u8 length; u16 key; - key = *desc++; - key |= (u16)*desc++ << 8; + if (desc_end - desc < sizeof(key) + sizeof(length)) + goto unrecognized; + + key = get_unaligned_le16(desc); + desc += sizeof(key); length = *desc++; + if (length > desc_end - desc) + goto unrecognized; + + value = desc; switch (key) { case 0x0200: { /* max_area */ - u32 max_area = *desc++; - max_area |= (u32)*desc++ << 8; - max_area |= (u32)*desc++ << 16; - max_area |= (u32)*desc++ << 24; + u32 max_area; + + if (length < sizeof(max_area)) + goto unrecognized; + + max_area = get_unaligned_le32(value); dev_warn(&intf->dev, "DL chip limited to %d pixel modes\n", max_area);
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2.43.0