Re: [BUG] video: fbdev: broadsheetfb: Possible null function pointers

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On 2018/7/26 22:34, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Thursday, July 26, 2018 10:17:44 PM bai wrote:
In Linux-4.16, drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c,

158. static void broadsheet_mmio_send_cmdargs(...) {
              ......
163.     par->board->mmio_write(...);
              ......
166.     par->board->mmio_write(...);
167. }

For x86 kernel configuration, I find that there is no assignment of the
function pointer ".mmio_write" in the kernel code.
So calling the function pointer in lines 163 and 166 may cause a null
pointer dereference.

In this file, there are many calls to this function pointer...
This is a platform driver and it won't be used on x86 (actually it is
used only by single ARM PXA board). The dependency for FB_BROADSHEET
in Kconfig file could be improved to i.e.

	depends on FB && (ARCH_PXA || COMPILE_TEST)

but there is no bug there.

Thanks for the reply :)
So I want to submit a patch of updating Kconfig in drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:

config FB_BROADSHEET
    tristate "E-Ink Broadsheet/Epson S1D13521 controller support"
-    depends on FB
+   depends on FB && (ARCH_PXA || COMPILE_TEST)
    select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
    select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
    select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
    select FB_SYS_FOPS
    select FB_DEFERRED_IO


Do you think it is okay?


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai
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