[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/i915/bios: handle MIPI Sequence Block v3+ gracefully" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Oct 19 14:21:20 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/i915/bios: handle MIPI Sequence Block v3+ gracefully

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From bacda5a9ed58cc867923297bd6c00222c7e443b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:42:07 +0300
Subject: drm/i915/bios: handle MIPI Sequence Block v3+ gracefully

commit cd67d226ebd909d239d2c6e5a6abd6e2a338d1cd upstream.

The VBT MIPI Sequence Block version 3 has forward incompatible changes:

First, the block size in the header has been specified reserved, and the
actual size is a separate 32-bit value within the block. The current
find_section() function to will only look at the size in the block
header, and, depending on what's in that now reserved size field,
continue looking for other sections in the wrong place.

Fix this by taking the new block size field into account. This will
ensure that the lookups for other sections will work properly, as long
as the new 32-bit size does not go beyond the opregion VBT mailbox size.

Second, the contents of the block have been completely
changed. Gracefully refuse parsing the yet unknown data version.

Cc: Deepak M <m.deepak at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Deepak M <m.deepak at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
index 2e0a2feb4cda..07d72573fc60 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ find_section(struct bdb_header *bdb, int section_id)
 {
 	u8 *base = (u8 *)bdb;
 	int index = 0;
-	u16 total, current_size;
+	u32 total, current_size;
 	u8 current_id;

 	/* skip to first section */
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ find_section(struct bdb_header *bdb, int section_id)
 		current_size = *((u16 *)(base + index));
 		index += 2;

+		/* The MIPI Sequence Block v3+ has a separate size field. */
+		if (current_id == BDB_MIPI_SEQUENCE && *(base + index) >= 3)
+			current_size = *((const u32 *)(base + index + 1));
+
 		if (index + current_size > total)
 			return NULL;

@@ -793,6 +797,12 @@ parse_mipi(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, struct bdb_header *bdb)
 		return;
 	}

+	/* Fail gracefully for forward incompatible sequence block. */
+	if (sequence->version >= 3) {
+		DRM_ERROR("Unable to parse MIPI Sequence Block v3+\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Found MIPI sequence block\n");

 	block_size = get_blocksize(sequence);




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