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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:57:39 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@gmail.com>
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        syzbot+858dc7a2f7ef07c2c219@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:37:20PM -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 made the resize_screen() be called
> even if the screen does not need any resizing, so it will
> "fix and fill" the fb_var_screeninfo independently.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+858dc7a2f7ef07c2c219@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: It Tries to avoid the problem found by Greg in the previous
>     patch.
> 
> v3: Add a big comment explaining why this is being done the way
>     it is.
> ---
>  drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> index fa1548d4f94b..a0207525a945 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> @@ -1220,7 +1220,20 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
>  	new_screen_size = new_row_size * new_rows;
>  
>  	if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
> -		return 0;
> +		/* This function is being called here to cover the case

Please do not use networking style comments, use normal ones:
		/*
		 * This function...

> +		 * where the userspace calls the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO twice,
> +		 * passing the same fb_var_screeninfo containing only the
> +		 * fields xres, yres, and bits_per_pixel with yeird(but valid)

"yeird"?

And put a space after that word please.

thanks,

greg k-h