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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] video: hyperv_fb: Fix validation of screen resolution
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:53:06PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@microsoft.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 2:19 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen
> > Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>; wei.liu@kernel.org; Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com>; Dexuan
> > Cui <decui@microsoft.com>; drawat.floss@gmail.com; hhei <hhei@redhat.com>; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org; linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org; dri-
> > devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@microsoft.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] video: hyperv_fb: Fix validation of screen resolution
> >
> > In the WIN10 version of the Synthetic Video protocol with Hyper-V,
> > Hyper-V reports a list of supported resolutions as part of the protocol
> > negotiation. The driver calculates the maximum width and height from
> > the list of resolutions, and uses those maximums to validate any screen
> > resolution specified in the video= option on the kernel boot line.
> >
> > This method of validation is incorrect. For example, the list of
> > supported resolutions could contain 1600x1200 and 1920x1080, both of
> > which fit in an 8 Mbyte frame buffer. But calculating the max width
> > and height yields 1920 and 1200, and 1920x1200 resolution does not fit
> > in an 8 Mbyte frame buffer. Unfortunately, this resolution is accepted,
> > causing a kernel fault when the driver accesses memory outside the
> > frame buffer.
> >
> > Instead, validate the specified screen resolution by calculating
> > its size, and comparing against the frame buffer size. Delete the
> > code for calculating the max width and height from the list of
> > resolutions, since these max values have no use. Also add the
> > frame buffer size to the info message to aid in understanding why
> > a resolution might be rejected.
> >
> > Fixes: 67e7cdb4829d ("video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: Obtain screen resolution from Hyper-V
> > host")
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
[...]
>
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
>

Applied to hyperv-fixes. Thanks.

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