[PATCH v2 (resend)] video: fbdev: fix OOB read in vga_8planes_imageblit()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Mon Aug 31 10:37:00 UTC 2020


syzbot is reporting OOB read at vga_8planes_imageblit() [1], for
"cdat[y] >> 4" can become a negative value due to "const char *cdat".

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0d7a0da1557dcd1989e00cb3692b26d4173b4132

Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+69fbd3e01470f169c8c4 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
index a20eeb8308ff..578d3541e3d6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ static void vga_8planes_imageblit(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_image *i
         char oldop = setop(0);
         char oldsr = setsr(0);
         char oldmask = selectmask();
-        const char *cdat = image->data;
+	const unsigned char *cdat = image->data;
 	u32 dx = image->dx;
         char __iomem *where;
         int y;
-- 
2.18.4




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