CVE-2022-50261 (GCVE-0-2022-50261)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 14:03
Modified
2025-09-15 14:03
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG), indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time, which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A proposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which reveals: drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hda.c:637:16: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'enum drm_mode_status (*)(struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' with an expression of type 'int (struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict] .mode_valid = sti_hda_connector_mode_valid, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_dvo.c:376:16: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'enum drm_mode_status (*)(struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' with an expression of type 'int (struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict] .mode_valid = sti_dvo_connector_mode_valid, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c:1035:16: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'enum drm_mode_status (*)(struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' with an expression of type 'int (struct drm_connector *, struct drm_display_mode *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict] .mode_valid = sti_hdmi_connector_mode_valid, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ->mode_valid() in 'struct drm_connector_helper_funcs' expects a return type of 'enum drm_mode_status', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() to match the prototype's to resolve the warning and CFI failure.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04371a75a58422a301a9ff9ae3babd310ac3bb3f
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ad811cc08a937d875cbad0149c1bab17f84ba05
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511b48ee8e4aec2d03d2af06b363d9eb3230b017
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3c4d3fa5d458d685561ecbaf8daa9dba14979e
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f9941dea3a70b73f2063f9dcc4aaae6af03c5ba
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a075c21ee026f4a74f9fce5928ea3c8d18a8af13
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2c92b2a3801b09b709cbefd9a9e4944b72400bf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4307c7d35e346b909edfdc1f280902150570bb6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e578b0906b6a81479cd5b5b6c848a7096addf5e9
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