During boot time, MST devices usually send a ton of hotplug events irregardless of whether or not any physical hotplugs actually occurred. Hotplugs mean connectors being created/destroyed, and the number of DRM connectors changing under us. This isn't a problem if we use fb_helper->connector_count since we only set it once in the code, however if we use num_connector from struct drm_mode_config we risk it's value changing under us. On top of that, there's even a chance that dev->mode_config.num_connector != fb_helper->connector_count. If the number of connectors happens to increase under us, we'll end up using the wrong array size for memcpy and start writing beyond the actual length of the array, occasionally resulting in kernel panics.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lyude <cpaul at redhat.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c index 97a91e6..c607217 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c @@ -366,12 +366,12 @@ static bool intel_fb_initial_config(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, uint64_t conn_configured = 0, mask; int pass = 0; - save_enabled = kcalloc(dev->mode_config.num_connector, sizeof(bool), + save_enabled = kcalloc(fb_helper->connector_count, sizeof(bool), GFP_KERNEL); if (!save_enabled) return false; - memcpy(save_enabled, enabled, dev->mode_config.num_connector); + memcpy(save_enabled, enabled, fb_helper->connector_count); mask = (1 << fb_helper->connector_count) - 1; retry: for (i = 0; i < fb_helper->connector_count; i++) { @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ retry: if (fallback) { bail: DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Not using firmware configuration\n"); - memcpy(enabled, save_enabled, dev->mode_config.num_connector); + memcpy(enabled, save_enabled, fb_helper->connector_count); kfree(save_enabled); return false; } -- 2.5.5