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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/tridentfb.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/tridentfb.rst b/Documentation/fb/tridentfb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7921c9dee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/tridentfb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +========= +Tridentfb +========= + +Tridentfb is a framebuffer driver for some Trident chip based cards. + +The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are +tested: + +those from the TGUI series 9440/96XX and with Cyber in their names +those from the Image series and with Cyber in their names +those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...) +the newer CyberBladeXP family + +All families are accelerated. Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported, +none of the older Tridents. +The driver supports 8, 16 and 32 bits per pixel depths. +The TGUI family requires a line length to be power of 2 if acceleration +is enabled. This means that range of possible resolutions and bpp is +limited comparing to the range if acceleration is disabled (see list +of parameters below). + +Known bugs: + +1. The driver randomly locks up on 3DImage975 chip with acceleration + enabled. The same happens in X11 (Xorg). +2. The ramdac speeds require some more fine tuning. It is possible to + switch resolution which the chip does not support at some depths for + older chips. + +How to use it? +============== + +When booting you can pass the video parameter:: + + video=tridentfb + +The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example:: + + video=tridentfb:800x600-16@75,noaccel + +The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are: + +======== ===================================================================== +noaccel turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card) + +fp use flat panel related stuff +crt assume monitor is present instead of fp + +center for flat panels and resolutions smaller than native size center the + image, otherwise use +stretch + +memsize integer value in KB, use if your card's memory size is misdetected. + look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing. + +memdiff integer value in KB, should be nonzero if your card reports + more memory than it actually has. For instance mine is 192K less than + detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M. + Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of + configurable size. Otherwise use memsize. + If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage + at the bottom this might help by not letting change to that mode + anymore. + +nativex the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024 + 800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it. + +bpp bits per pixel (8,16 or 32) +mode a mode name like 800x600-8@75 as described in + Documentation/fb/modedb.rst +======== ===================================================================== + +Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver +misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or +nativex=93) + +Contact: jani@astechnix.ro |
