Re: [PATCH] fbcon: Use kzalloc() in fbcon_prepare_logo()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Handa-san,

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 4:32 PM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A kernel built with syzbot's config file reported that
>
>   scr_memcpyw(q, save, array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2))
>
> causes uninitialized "save" to be copied.

> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit a6a00d7e8ffd78d1
("fbcon: Use kzalloc() in fbcon_prepare_logo()") in v6.1-rc7,
and which is being backported to stable.

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static void fbcon_prepare_logo(struct vc_data *vc, struct fb_info *info,
>                 if (scr_readw(r) != vc->vc_video_erase_char)
>                         break;
>         if (r != q && new_rows >= rows + logo_lines) {
> -               save = kmalloc(array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2),
> +               save = kzalloc(array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2),
>                                GFP_KERNEL);
>                 if (save) {
>                         int i = min(cols, new_cols);

The next line is:

                        scr_memsetw(save, erase,
array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2));

So how can this turn out to be uninitialized later below?

                scr_memcpyw(q, save, array3_size(logo_lines, new_cols, 2));

What am I missing?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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