Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271824AbTGXXzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271832AbTGXXzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:55:11 -0400 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:6595 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271824AbTGXXzC (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:55:02 -0400 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: James Simmons Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 02:09:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: How is info->cmap supposed to work? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-ID: <82F553B0EAD@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2836 Lines: 68 On 25 Jul 03 at 1:04, James Simmons wrote: > > Hi! Finally ;-) I just posted on lk that nobody answered... > > (1) FBIOGETCMAP calls fb_copy_cmap(&info->cmap, &cmap, 0); > > Should not it use last argument of '2', as &cmap points > > to the userspace? It looks to me like that anybody can > > overwrite kernel currently... Only positive side is that > > there is no way to control info->cmap contents (see (2)), > > so you can only crash kernel with random code, you cannot > > stuff some malicious code there. > > I think I posted something about that some time ago and I didn't here > anything. Looking at the code I realized that yeap its broke. Its strange > that both fb_set_cmap and fb_copy_cmap can get data from userland. I would > think that we either have fb_set_cmap just set the video hardware or > have fb_set_cmap be able to grab data from userland and fb_copy_cmap send > data to userland. It looks reasonable. > > (2) FBIOPUTCMAP calls fb_set_cmap, which in turn calls > > fb_setcolreg. > > True. > > > FBIOGETCMAP copies cmap entries from > > info->cmap (after fixing (1)). Does it mean that > > fb_setcolreg has to fill info->cmap itself? > > No. At present all the drivers initialize a default cmap. Then it > doesn't matter which function gets called first. Problem is that if you do FBIOPUTCMAP to change (say) entry #0, FBIOGETCMAP will retrieve default value of entry #0 instead of value you just set with FBIOPUTCMAP, unless driver updates its info->cmap itself... > > Is not it > > a bit ugly? And fb_set_cmap documentation is incorrect: > > kspc == 0 means copy from userspace, while > > kspc != 0 means copy "local", inside kernel-space. Documentation > > says that 0 is local, while 1 is get_user. > > :-( I have to look to see if that has been around for a while. I have a > feeling it has been. 2.4.x does same. But I do not think that it is excuse ;-) > The reason for the driver initalizing the default cmap is because > we don't know how big the actual colormap will be. I don't know if > the generic method of setting to color map to 2^bpp until above 8 bpp > mode in which case we only set 16 colors will always work. Perhaps we > could just set the cmap.len field and have the upper layer just generate > from that. Ok, then there is a problem - as nothing in matroxfb uses info->cmap, I did not saw any need to initialize it. I'll fix it. Petr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/