drm/exynos: hdmi: report safe 640x480 mode as a fallback when no EDID found
CVE: CVE-2024-40916
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-617
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/exynos: hdmi: report safe 640x480 mode as a fallback when no EDID found

When reading EDID fails and driver reports no modes available, the DRM
core adds an artificial 1024x786 mode to the connector. Unfortunately
some variants of the Exynos HDMI (like the one in Exynos4 SoCs) are not
able to drive such mode, so report a safe 640x480 mode instead of nothing
in case of the EDID reading failure.

This fixes the following issue observed on Trats2 board since commit
13d5b040363c ("drm/exynos: do not return negative values from .get_modes()"):

[drm] Exynos DRM: using 11c00000.fimd device for DMA mapping operations
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 11c00000.fimd (ops fimd_component_ops)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 12c10000.mixer (ops mixer_component_ops)
exynos-dsi 11c80000.dsi: [drm:samsung_dsim_host_attach] Attached s6e8aa0 device (lanes:4 bpp:24 mode-flags:0x10b)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 11c80000.dsi (ops exynos_dsi_component_ops)
exynos-drm exynos-drm: bound 12d00000.hdmi (ops hdmi_component_ops)
[drm] Initialized exynos 1.1.0 20180330 for exynos-drm on minor 1
exynos-hdmi 12d00000.hdmi: [drm:hdmiphy_enable.part.0] *ERROR* PLL could not reach steady state
panel-samsung-s6e8aa0 11c80000.dsi.0: ID: 0xa2, 0x20, 0x8c
exynos-mixer 12c10000.mixer: timeout waiting for VSYNC
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1682 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x2b0/0x2b8
[CRTC:70:crtc-1] vblank wait timed out
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-next-20240424 #14913
Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree)
Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
Call trace:
 unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x88
 dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x7c/0x1c4
 __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x11c/0x1a8
 warn_slowpath_fmt from drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x2b0/0x2b8
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0 from drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x7c/0x8c
 drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm from commit_tail+0x9c/0x184
 commit_tail from drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x168/0x190
 drm_atomic_helper_commit from drm_atomic_commit+0xb4/0xe0
 drm_atomic_commit from drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0x23c/0x27c
 drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic from drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x60/0x1cc
 drm_client_modeset_commit_locked from drm_client_modeset_commit+0x24/0x40
 drm_client_modeset_commit from __drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked+0x9c/0xc4
 __drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked from drm_fb_helper_set_par+0x2c/0x3c
 drm_fb_helper_set_par from fbcon_init+0x3d8/0x550
 fbcon_init from visual_init+0xc0/0x108
 visual_init from do_bind_con_driver+0x1b8/0x3a4
 do_bind_con_driver from do_take_over_console+0x140/0x1ec
 do_take_over_console from do_fbcon_takeover+0x70/0xd0
 do_fbcon_takeover from fbcon_fb_registered+0x19c/0x1ac
 fbcon_fb_registered from register_framebuffer+0x190/0x21c
 register_framebuffer from __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x350/0x574
 __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock from exynos_drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x6c/0xb0
 exynos_drm_fbdev_client_hotplug from drm_client_register+0x58/0x94
 drm_client_register from exynos_drm_bind+0x160/0x190
 exynos_drm_bind from try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x200/0x2d8
 try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device from __component_add+0xb0/0x170
 __component_add from mixer_probe+0x74/0xcc
 mixer_probe from platform_probe+0x5c/0xb8
 platform_probe from really_probe+0xe0/0x3d8
 really_probe from __driver_probe_device+0x9c/0x1e4
 __driver_probe_device from driver_probe_device+0x30/0xc0
 driver_probe_device from __device_attach_driver+0xa8/0x120
 __device_attach_driver from bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xcc
 bus_for_each_drv from __device_attach+0xac/0x1fc
 __device_attach from bus_probe_device+0x8c/0x90
 bus_probe_device from deferred_probe_work_func+0
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