[PATCH] fbdev: core: Initialize modelist in framebuffer_alloc()
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From: Andrey Misiurov <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-12 17:54:00
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dri-devel, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
framebuffer core, framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Simona Vetter, Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds
framebuffer_alloc() returns zeroed memory, so info->modelist starts out
with NULL next and prev pointers. The list head is initialized only
later, by fb_videomode_to_modelist() or by do_register_framebuffer().
The "fix potential memory leak" commits listed below added
fb_destroy_modelist(&info->modelist) to the probe error paths of s3fb,
tdfxfb, tridentfb, i740fb and carminefb. These paths can run before
the list head is initialized:
- s3fb, tdfxfb, tridentfb and i740fb call fb_videomode_to_modelist()
only after a successful EDID read, and tridentfb can also hit the
error path on an ioremap() or kmalloc() failure before that;
- carminefb jumps to the error path when fb_find_mode() fails, before
its fb_videomode_to_modelist() call.
fb_destroy_modelist() then dereferences the NULL head. Reproduced on
Debian 12 (6.1.180) by binding s3fb to a VGA device without EDID and
forcing fb_alloc_cmap() to fail:
s3fb 0000:00:03.0: cannot allocate colormap
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
RIP: 0010:fb_destroy_modelist+0x10/0x80
Call Trace:
s3_pci_probe.cold+0x12b/0x2bf [s3fb]
local_pci_probe+0x41/0x80
pci_device_probe+0xc3/0x240
really_probe+0xde/0x380
__driver_probe_device+0x84/0x150
driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
__driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0
bus_for_each_dev+0x87/0xd0
bus_add_driver+0x1ae/0x200
driver_register+0x89/0xe0
do_one_initcall+0x59/0x220
do_init_module+0x4a/0x1f0
Initialize the list head in framebuffer_alloc(), so info->modelist is
always a valid, possibly empty, list and fb_destroy_modelist() is safe
on every error path. Keep the lazy initialization in
do_register_framebuffer(), as drivers that embed struct fb_info rather
than calling framebuffer_alloc() still depend on it.
Fixes: 3b0ed04bc852 ("fbdev: s3fb: fix potential memory leak in s3_pci_probe()")
Fixes: bb019d755366 ("fbdev: tdfxfb: fix potential memory leak in tdfxfb_probe()")
Fixes: 7a35ec619d9a ("fbdev: tridentfb: fix potential memory leak in trident_pci_probe()")
Fixes: 5936063409af ("fbdev: i740fb: fix potential memory leak in i740fb_probe()")
Fixes: 6fcca16a2b19 ("fbdev: carminefb: fix potential memory leak in alloc_carmine_fb()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Misiurov <redacted>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c
index 52f9bd2..05988a9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct fb_info *framebuffer_alloc(size_t size, struct device *dev) info->device = dev; info->fbcon_rotate_hint = -1; info->blank = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->modelist); #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT) mutex_init(&info->bl_curve_mutex);
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