[Patch 7/9]: vt: Handle up to 2^21 glyphs, rather than 256/512

From: Alan Mackenzie

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 14:57:33 EST


vt: 32b glyph: 7. Handle up to 2^21 glyphs, rather than 256/512

Replace/supplement tests for number of glyphs with the full
Unicode limits.

Signed-off-by: Alan Mackenzie <acm@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 8f467b22b799..0c389a564357 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -4905,6 +4961,7 @@ void reset_palette(struct vc_data *vc)
#define max_font_width 64
#define max_font_height 128
#define max_font_glyphs 512
+#define max_font_glyphs21 0x110000
#define max_font_size (max_font_glyphs*max_font_width*max_font_height)

static int con_font_get(struct vc_data *vc, struct console_font_op *op)
@@ -4960,17 +5017,23 @@ static int con_font_set(struct vc_data *vc, const struct console_font_op *op)

if (!op->data)
return -EINVAL;
+#ifndef CONFIG_FB_GLYPH_21BIT
if (op->charcount > max_font_glyphs)
return -EINVAL;
+#else
+ if (op->charcount > max_font_glyphs21)
+ return -EINVAL;
+#endif
if (op->width <= 0 || op->width > max_font_width || !op->height ||
op->height > max_font_height)
return -EINVAL;
if (vpitch < op->height)
return -EINVAL;
size = DIV_ROUND_UP(op->width, 8) * vpitch * op->charcount;
+#ifndef CONFIG_FB_GLYPH_21BIT
if (size > max_font_size)
return -ENOSPC;
-
+#endif
void *font_data __free(kfree) = font.data = memdup_user(op->data, size);
if (IS_ERR(font.data))
return PTR_ERR(font.data);
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index 9f5c4c101581..18fbf7cf11dd 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -2331,7 +2366,9 @@ static int fbcon_get_font(struct vc_data *vc, struct console_font *font, unsigne
font->height = vc->vc_font.height;
if (font->height > vpitch)
return -ENOSPC;
- font->charcount = vc->vc_hi_font_mask ? 512 : 256;
+ font->charcount = vc->vc_font.charcount;
+ if (!font->data)
+ return 0;

return font_data_export(p->fontdata, font, vpitch);
}
@@ -2420,10 +2468,13 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
vc->vc_font.width = w;
vc->vc_font.height = h;
vc->vc_font.charcount = charcount;
- if (vc->vc_hi_font_mask && charcount == 256)
- set_vc_hi_font(vc, false);
- else if (!vc->vc_hi_font_mask && charcount == 512)
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_FB_GLYPH_21BIT
+ if (charcount == 512 && !vc->vc_hi_font_mask)
set_vc_hi_font(vc, true);
+ else if (charcount == 256 && vc->vc_hi_font_mask)
+ set_vc_hi_font(vc, false);
+#endif

if (resize) {
int cols, rows;
@@ -2465,8 +2518,9 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
}

/*
- * User asked to set font; we are guaranteed that charcount does not exceed 512
- * but lets not assume that, since charcount of 512 is small for unicode support.
+ * User asked to set font; we were once guaranteed that charcount did not
+ * exceed 512 but that is no longer the case, since charcount of 512 is too
+ * small for unicode support.
*/

static int fbcon_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, const struct console_font *font,
@@ -2479,10 +2533,18 @@ static int fbcon_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, const struct console_font *font,
int i, ret;
font_data_t *new_data;

- /* Is there a reason why fbconsole couldn't handle any charcount >256?
- * If not this check should be changed to charcount < 256 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_GLYPH_21BIT
+ if (charcount < 256)
+ return -EINVAL;
+#else
+ /* There is no longer any reason why fbconsole can't handle
+ * any charcount >256, when CONFIG_FB_GLYPH_21BIT is #defined.
+ * Hence this check has been changed to charcount < 256
+ * above.
+ */
if (charcount != 256 && charcount != 512)
return -EINVAL;
+#endif

/* font bigger than screen resolution ? */
if (w > FBCON_SWAP(info->var.rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres) ||


--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).