[PATCH] vgacon: fix a UAF in do_update_region()

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Sat Oct 17 12:25:06 UTC 2020


Hi Yang.

Can you please resend and include Greg in the recipient list.
Greg is maintainer of the console subsystem these days.

	Sam

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:04:45AM +0000, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> I got a UAF report in do_update_region() when I doing fuzz test.
> 
> [   51.161905] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.161918] Read of size 2 at addr ffff888000100000 by task test/295
> 
> [   51.161957] CPU: 2 PID: 295 Comm: test Not tainted 5.7.0+ #975
> [   51.161969] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [   51.161976] Call Trace:
> [   51.162001]  dump_stack+0xc6/0x11e
> [   51.162019]  ? do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.162047]  print_address_description.constprop.6+0x1a/0x220
> [   51.162083]  ? vprintk_func+0x66/0xed
> [   51.162100]  ? do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.162112]  ? do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.162128]  kasan_report.cold.9+0x37/0x7c
> [   51.162151]  ? do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.162173]  do_update_region+0x579/0x600
> [   51.162207]  ? con_get_trans_old+0x230/0x230
> [   51.162229]  ? retint_kernel+0x10/0x10
> [   51.162278]  csi_J+0x557/0xa00
> [   51.162307]  do_con_trol+0x49af/0x5cc0
> [   51.162330]  ? lock_downgrade+0x720/0x720
> [   51.162347]  ? reset_palette+0x1b0/0x1b0
> [   51.162369]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x379/0x540
> [   51.162393]  ? notifier_call_chain+0x11b/0x160
> [   51.162438]  do_con_write.part.24+0xb0a/0x1a30
> [   51.162501]  ? do_con_trol+0x5cc0/0x5cc0
> [   51.162522]  ? console_unlock+0x7b8/0xb00
> [   51.162555]  ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xd4/0x670
> [   51.162574]  ? this_tty+0xe0/0xe0
> [   51.162589]  ? console_unlock+0x559/0xb00
> [   51.162605]  ? wait_for_completion+0x260/0x260
> [   51.162638]  con_write+0x31/0xb0
> [   51.162658]  n_tty_write+0x4fa/0xd40
> [   51.162710]  ? n_tty_read+0x1800/0x1800
> [   51.162730]  ? prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0x270/0x270
> [   51.162754]  ? __might_fault+0x175/0x1b0
> [   51.162783]  tty_write+0x42b/0x8d0
> [   51.162795]  ? n_tty_read+0x1800/0x1800
> [   51.162825]  ? tty_lookup_driver+0x450/0x450
> [   51.162848]  __vfs_write+0x7c/0x100
> [   51.162875]  vfs_write+0x1c9/0x510
> [   51.162901]  ksys_write+0xff/0x200
> [   51.162918]  ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0
> [   51.162940]  ? do_syscall_64+0x1a/0x520
> [   51.162957]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x379/0x540
> [   51.162984]  do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x520
> [   51.163008]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3
> 
> After vgacon_set_origin() is called in set_origin(), the vc_origin is
> set to vga_vram_base, the vc_pos should between vga_vram_base and
> vga_vram_end. But we still use vc_screenbuf_size, if the vga_vram_size
> is smaller than vc_screenbuf_size, vc_pos may be out of bound, using it
> will cause a use-after-free(or out-of-bounds). Fix this by calling
> vc_resize() if vga_vram_size is smaller than vc_screenbuf_size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> index b51ffb9a208d..2eabb86bb0dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> @@ -1341,6 +1341,9 @@ static int vgacon_set_origin(struct vc_data *c)
>  	if (vga_is_gfx ||	/* We don't play origin tricks in graphic modes */
>  	    (console_blanked && !vga_palette_blanked))	/* Nor we write to blanked screens */
>  		return 0;
> +
> +	if (c->vc_screenbuf_size > vga_vram_size)
> +		vc_resize(c, screen_info.orig_video_cols, screen_info.orig_video_lines);
>  	c->vc_origin = c->vc_visible_origin = vga_vram_base;
>  	vga_set_mem_top(c);
>  	vga_rolled_over = 0;
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
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