Re: [PATCH RFC] tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon May 31 2021 - 12:56:04 EST


On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 09:47:13AM -0300, Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente wrote:
> This issue happens when a userspace program does an ioctl
> FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO passing the fb_var_screeninfo struct
> containing only the fields xres, yres, and bits_per_pixel
> with values.
>
> If this struct is the same as the previous ioctl, the
> vc_resize() detects it and doesn't call the resize_screen(),
> leaving the fb_var_screeninfo incomplete. And this leads to
> the updatescrollmode() calculates a wrong value to
> fbcon_display->vrows, which makes the real_y() return a
> wrong value of y, and that value, eventually, causes
> the imageblit to access an out-of-bound address value.
>
> To solve this issue I brougth the resize_screen() the
> beginning of vc_do_resize(), so it will "fix and fill"
> the fb_var_screeninfo even if the screen does not need any
> resizing.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+858dc7a2f7ef07c2c219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 12 ++++--------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Why is this "RFC"?