This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: fix pin_assignment_show
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
usb-typec-altmodes-displayport-fix-pin_assignment_show.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d8f28269dd4bf9b55c3fb376ae31512730a96fce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 21:44:43 +0000
Subject: usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: fix pin_assignment_show
From: Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d8f28269dd4bf9b55c3fb376ae31512730a96fce upstream.
This patch fixes negative indexing of buf array in pin_assignment_show
when get_current_pin_assignments returns 0 i.e. no compatible pin
assignments are found.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in pin_assignment_show+0x26c/0x33c
...
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x110/0x204
dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xbc
print_report+0x358/0x974
kasan_report+0x9c/0xfc
__do_kernel_fault+0xd4/0x2d4
do_bad_area+0x48/0x168
do_tag_check_fault+0x24/0x38
do_mem_abort+0x6c/0x14c
el1_abort+0x44/0x68
el1h_64_sync_handler+0x64/0xa4
el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x7c
pin_assignment_show+0x26c/0x33c
dev_attr_show+0x50/0xc0
Fixes: 0e3bb7d6894d ("usb: typec: Add driver for DisplayPort alternate mode")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230508214443.893436-1-badhri@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/displayport.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/displayport.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/displayport.c
@@ -501,6 +501,10 @@ static ssize_t pin_assignment_show(struc
mutex_unlock(&dp->lock);
+ /* get_current_pin_assignments can return 0 when no matching pin assignments are found */
+ if (len == 0)
+ len++;
+
buf[len - 1] = '\n';
return len;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from badhri@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/usb-typec-altmodes-displayport-fix-pin_assignment_show.patch
