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| author | Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> | 2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> | 2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100 |
| commit | 78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/fb/cmap_xfbdev.rst | |
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openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscallgrafted
sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user
pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written
assembly.
l.lwz r29,0(r4)
l.lwz r27,0(r5)
l.sw 0(r4),r27
l.sw 0(r5),r29
The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory
accesses also have no exception table entries.
A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall
reads from and writes to it directly.
This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It
overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code
execution in kernel context.
Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups
for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user
addresses return -EFAULT.
[shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style]
Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/cmap_xfbdev.rst b/Documentation/fb/cmap_xfbdev.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5db5e9787 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/cmap_xfbdev.rst @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +========================== +Understanding fbdev's cmap +========================== + +These notes explain how X's dix layer uses fbdev's cmap structures. + +- example of relevant structures in fbdev as used for a 3-bit grayscale cmap:: + + struct fb_var_screeninfo { + .bits_per_pixel = 8, + .grayscale = 1, + .red = { 4, 3, 0 }, + .green = { 0, 0, 0 }, + .blue = { 0, 0, 0 }, + } + struct fb_fix_screeninfo { + .visual = FB_VISUAL_STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR, + } + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) + info->cmap.red[i] = (((2*i)+1)*(0xFFFF))/16; + memcpy(info->cmap.green, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8); + memcpy(info->cmap.blue, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8); + +- X11 apps do something like the following when trying to use grayscale:: + + for (i=0; i < 8; i++) { + char colorspec[64]; + memset(colorspec,0,64); + sprintf(colorspec, "rgb:%x/%x/%x", i*36,i*36,i*36); + if (!XParseColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, colorspec, &wantedColor)) + printf("Can't get color %s\n",colorspec); + XAllocColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, &wantedColor); + grays[i] = wantedColor; + } + +There's also named equivalents like gray1..x provided you have an rgb.txt. + +Somewhere in X's callchain, this results in a call to X code that handles the +colormap. For example, Xfbdev hits the following: + +xc-011010/programs/Xserver/dix/colormap.c:: + + FindBestPixel(pentFirst, size, prgb, channel) + + dr = (long) pent->co.local.red - prgb->red; + dg = (long) pent->co.local.green - prgb->green; + db = (long) pent->co.local.blue - prgb->blue; + sq = dr * dr; + UnsignedToBigNum (sq, &sum); + BigNumAdd (&sum, &temp, &sum); + +co.local.red are entries that were brought in through FBIOGETCMAP which come +directly from the info->cmap.red that was listed above. The prgb is the rgb +that the app wants to match to. The above code is doing what looks like a least +squares matching function. That's why the cmap entries can't be set to the left +hand side boundaries of a color range. |
