The drm_edid_alloc() function uses kmemdup() to copy raw EDID data, which can be loaded from firmware. A problem exists because the firmware subsystem uses vfree() to release its data buffer. This implies the buffer may be allocated with vmalloc() and can thus be larger than kmalloc() typically supports. Since kmemdup() uses kmalloc() internally, attempting to duplicate a large, vmalloc'd EDID buffer can lead to an allocation failure.
To fix this mismatch and robustly handle EDID data of any size, this patch replaces kmemdup() with kvmemdup(). The kvmemdup() function is designed for this scenario, as it can safely handle a vmalloc'd source and choose an appropriate allocator for the destination. The corresponding free calls are therefore updated to kvfree(). Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zi...@seu.edu.cn> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c index e2e85345aa9a..97142bfc45ad 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c @@ -2530,13 +2530,13 @@ const struct drm_edid *drm_edid_alloc(const void *edid, size_t size) if (!edid || !size || size < EDID_LENGTH) return NULL; - edid = kmemdup(edid, size, GFP_KERNEL); + edid = kvmemdup(edid, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!edid) return NULL; drm_edid = _drm_edid_alloc(edid, size); if (!drm_edid) - kfree(edid); + kvfree(edid); return drm_edid; } @@ -2568,7 +2568,7 @@ void drm_edid_free(const struct drm_edid *drm_edid) if (!drm_edid) return; - kfree(drm_edid->edid); + kvfree(drm_edid->edid); kfree(drm_edid); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_edid_free); -- 2.34.1