[PATCH v2] media: cobalt: bound the dv timings to the descriptor buffers

From: Guo Zihao

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 21:59:49 EST


The DMA descriptor buffers are sized from the maximum frame the driver
supports:

const size_t max_pages_per_line =
(COBALT_MAX_WIDTH * COBALT_MAX_BPP) / PAGE_SIZE + 2;
const size_t bytes =
COBALT_MAX_HEIGHT * max_pages_per_line * 0x20;

With COBALT_MAX_WIDTH 1920, COBALT_MAX_HEIGHT 1200 and COBALT_MAX_BPP 3
that is 115200 bytes, or 3600 descriptors of 0x20 bytes each.

cobalt_s_dv_timings() however records whatever the subdevice accepts
without checking it against those maxima:

err = v4l2_subdev_call(s->sd, pad, s_dv_timings, 0, timings);
if (!err) {
s->timings = *timings;
s->width = timings->bt.width;
s->height = timings->bt.height;
s->stride = timings->bt.width * s->bpp;
}

descriptor_list_create() in cobalt-omnitek.c then walks the whole frame
and writes one descriptor per scatterlist segment, with no upper bound of
its own. An HDMI source at 4096x2160 with bpp 3 gives stride 12288 and
size 26542080, which needs far more than the 3600 descriptors the buffer
holds, so d[] walks off the end of the coherent allocation.

cobalt_try_fmt_vid_cap() and cobalt_try_fmt_vid_out() already cap width
and height at 1920x1080, and this patch adds the same bound for the
timings path plus a stride limit on the pixelformat path.

No Fixes tag. The descriptor sizing and s_dv_timings() both come from the
initial driver, 85756a069c55 ("[media] cobalt: add new driver").

Reviewed-by: Liu Chao <liuc63@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guo Zihao <guozh23@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: declare the local struct cobalt pointer in cobalt_s_dv_timings().
The cobalt_info() macro expands to v4l2_info(&cobalt->v4l2_dev, ...),
so the function needs a variable of that name, which the previous
version was missing. Found by the kernel test robot.

drivers/media/pci/cobalt/cobalt-v4l2.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cobalt/cobalt-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/pci/cobalt/cobalt-v4l2.c
index 51fd9576c..8ffee8ed6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/cobalt/cobalt-v4l2.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/cobalt/cobalt-v4l2.c
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ static int cobalt_s_dv_timings(struct file *file, void *priv,
struct v4l2_dv_timings *timings)
{
struct cobalt_stream *s = video_drvdata(file);
+ struct cobalt *cobalt = s->cobalt;
int err;

if (s->input == 1) {
@@ -630,6 +631,13 @@ static int cobalt_s_dv_timings(struct file *file, void *priv,
if (vb2_is_busy(&s->q))
return -EBUSY;

+ if (timings->bt.width > COBALT_MAX_WIDTH ||
+ timings->bt.height > COBALT_MAX_HEIGHT) {
+ cobalt_info("timings %ux%u out of range\n",
+ timings->bt.width, timings->bt.height);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
err = v4l2_subdev_call(s->sd,
pad, s_dv_timings, 0, timings);
if (!err) {
@@ -781,6 +789,14 @@ static int cobalt_try_fmt_vid_cap(struct file *file, void *priv,
break;
}

+ /*
+ * The DMA descriptor buffers are sized for at most
+ * COBALT_MAX_WIDTH x COBALT_MAX_HEIGHT, so limit the line stride
+ * accordingly.
+ */
+ if (pix->bytesperline > COBALT_MAX_WIDTH * COBALT_MAX_BPP)
+ pix->bytesperline = COBALT_MAX_WIDTH * COBALT_MAX_BPP;
+
pix->sizeimage = pix->bytesperline * pix->height;
pix->field = V4L2_FIELD_NONE;

--
2.50.1