This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion
to the 3.4-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:
drm-stop-vmgfx-driver-explosion.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From f5869a8308f77e3dfdc2e3640842b285aa788ff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:44:52 +0000
Subject: drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion
From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
commit f5869a8308f77e3dfdc2e3640842b285aa788ff8 upstream.
If you do a page flip with no flags set then event is NULL. If event is
NULL then the vmw_gfx driver likes to go digging into NULL and extracts
NULL->base.file_priv.
On a modern kernel with NULL mapping protection it's just another oops,
without it there are some "intriguing" possibilities.
What it should do is an open question but that for the driver owners to
sort out.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
@@ -1688,15 +1688,19 @@ int vmw_du_page_flip(struct drm_crtc *cr
struct vmw_private *dev_priv = vmw_priv(crtc->dev);
struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb = crtc->fb;
struct vmw_framebuffer *vfb = vmw_framebuffer_to_vfb(fb);
- struct drm_file *file_priv = event->base.file_priv;
+ struct drm_file *file_priv ;
struct vmw_fence_obj *fence = NULL;
struct drm_clip_rect clips;
int ret;
+ if (event == NULL)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* require ScreenObject support for page flipping */
if (!dev_priv->sou_priv)
return -ENOSYS;
+ file_priv = event->base.file_priv;
if (!vmw_kms_screen_object_flippable(dev_priv, crtc))
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/drm-stop-vmgfx-driver-explosion.patch
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