commit 255f0e7c418ad95a4baeda017ae6182ba9b3c423 upstream. During boot, MST hotplugs are generally expected (even if no physical hotplugging occurs) and result in DRM's connector topology changing. This means that using num_connector from the current mode configuration can lead to the number of connectors changing under us. This can lead to some nasty scenarios in fbcon: - We allocate an array to the size of dev->mode_config.num_connectors. - MST hotplug occurs, dev->mode_config.num_connectors gets incremented. - We try to loop through each element in the array using the new value of dev->mode_config.num_connectors, and end up going out of bounds since dev->mode_config.num_connectors is now larger then the array we allocated. fb_helper->connector_count however, will always remain consistent while we do a modeset in fb_helper. This fix is only required for 4.6 and below. David Airlie's patchseries for 4.7 to add connector reference counting provides a more proper fix for this. Changes since v1: - Remove leftover *dev variable from drm_pick_crtcs since it's not used now Upstream fix: 0552f7651bc2 ("drm/i915/mst: use reference counted connectors. (v3)") Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lyude <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 855108e..fe4df97 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c @@ -1895,7 +1895,6 @@ static int drm_pick_crtcs(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, int n, int width, int height) { int c, o; - struct drm_device *dev = fb_helper->dev; struct drm_connector *connector; const struct drm_connector_helper_funcs *connector_funcs; struct drm_encoder *encoder; @@ -1914,7 +1913,7 @@ static int drm_pick_crtcs(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, if (modes[n] == NULL) return best_score; - crtcs = kzalloc(dev->mode_config.num_connector * + crtcs = kzalloc(fb_helper->connector_count * sizeof(struct drm_fb_helper_crtc *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!crtcs) return best_score; @@ -1960,7 +1959,7 @@ static int drm_pick_crtcs(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, if (score > best_score) { best_score = score; memcpy(best_crtcs, crtcs, - dev->mode_config.num_connector * + fb_helper->connector_count * sizeof(struct drm_fb_helper_crtc *)); } } -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html