CVE-2022-50261

drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

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.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before b2c92b2a3801b09b709cbefd9a9e4944b72400bfAffected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before b4307c7d35e346b909edfdc1f280902150570bb6Affected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before 8f9941dea3a70b73f2063f9dcc4aaae6af03c5baAffected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before 511b48ee8e4aec2d03d2af06b363d9eb3230b017Affected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before 6e3c4d3fa5d458d685561ecbaf8daa9dba14979eAffected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before a075c21ee026f4a74f9fce5928ea3c8d18a8af13Affected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before e578b0906b6a81479cd5b5b6c848a7096addf5e9Affected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before 04371a75a58422a301a9ff9ae3babd310ac3bb3fAffected
  • 5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 to before 0ad811cc08a937d875cbad0149c1bab17f84ba05Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.17Affected
  • before 3.17Not affected
  • 4.9.337 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.303 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.270 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.229 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.163 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.86 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.16 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.2 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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