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vmw_context_cotable can return either an error or a null pointer and its
usage sometimes went unchecked. Subsequent code would then try to access
either a null pointer or an error value.
The invalid dereferences were only possible with malformed userspace
apps which never properly initialized the rendering contexts.
Check the results of vmw_context_cotable to fix the invalid derefs.
Thanks:
ziming zhang(@ezrak1e) from Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab
who was the first person to discover it.
Niels De Graef who reported it and helped to track down the poc.
Fixes: 9c079b8ce8 ("drm/vmwgfx: Adapt execbuf to the new validation api")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.20+
Reported-by: Niels De Graef <ndegraef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
Cc: Martin Krastev <martin.krastev@broadcom.com>
Cc: Maaz Mombasawala <maaz.mombasawala@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ian Forbes <ian.forbes@broadcom.com>
Cc: Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Reviewed-by: Maaz Mombasawala <maaz.mombasawala@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Krastev <martin.krastev@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240110200305.94086-1-zack.rusin@broadcom.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.