This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
radeon: Do not directly dereference pointers to BIOS area.
to the 3.14-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:
radeon-do-not-directly-dereference-pointers-to-bios-area.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f2c9e560b406f2f6b14b345c7da33467dee9cdf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:18:40 -0400
Subject: radeon: Do not directly dereference pointers to BIOS area.
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From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f2c9e560b406f2f6b14b345c7da33467dee9cdf2 upstream.
Use readb() and memcpy_fromio() accessors instead.
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_bios.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static bool igp_read_bios_from_vram(stru
static bool radeon_read_bios(struct radeon_device *rdev)
{
- uint8_t __iomem *bios;
+ uint8_t __iomem *bios, val1, val2;
size_t size;
rdev->bios = NULL;
@@ -86,15 +86,19 @@ static bool radeon_read_bios(struct rade
return false;
}
- if (size == 0 || bios[0] != 0x55 || bios[1] != 0xaa) {
+ val1 = readb(&bios[0]);
+ val2 = readb(&bios[1]);
+
+ if (size == 0 || val1 != 0x55 || val2 != 0xaa) {
pci_unmap_rom(rdev->pdev, bios);
return false;
}
- rdev->bios = kmemdup(bios, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ rdev->bios = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (rdev->bios == NULL) {
pci_unmap_rom(rdev->pdev, bios);
return false;
}
+ memcpy_fromio(rdev->bios, bios, size);
pci_unmap_rom(rdev->pdev, bios);
return true;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/radeon-do-not-directly-dereference-pointers-to-bios-area.patch
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