[PATCH] fbcon: Fix user font detection test at fbcon_resize().

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Thu Sep 10 22:57:06 UTC 2020


syzbot is reporting OOB read at fbcon_resize() [1], for
commit 39b3cffb8cf31117 ("fbcon: prevent user font height or width change
 from causing potential out-of-bounds access") is by error using
registered_fb[con2fb_map[vc->vc_num]]->fbcon_par->p->userfont (which was
set to non-zero) instead of fb_display[vc->vc_num].userfont (which remains
zero for that display).

We could remove tricky userfont flag [2], for we can determine it by
comparing address of the font data and addresses of built-in font data.
But since that commit is failing to fix the original OOB read [3], this
patch keeps the change minimal in case we decide to revert altogether.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=ebcbbb6576958a496500fee9cf7aa83ea00b5920
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=Patch&x=14030853900000
[3] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6fba8c186d97cf1011ab17660e633b1cc4e080c9

Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+b38b1ef6edf0c74a8d97 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Fixes: 39b3cffb8cf31117 ("fbcon: prevent user font height or width change from causing potential out-of-bounds access")
Cc: George Kennedy <george.kennedy at oracle.com>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index 66167830fefd..dae7ae7f225a 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -2203,7 +2203,7 @@ static int fbcon_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int width,
 	struct fb_var_screeninfo var = info->var;
 	int x_diff, y_diff, virt_w, virt_h, virt_fw, virt_fh;
 
-	if (ops->p && ops->p->userfont && FNTSIZE(vc->vc_font.data)) {
+	if (p->userfont && FNTSIZE(vc->vc_font.data)) {
 		int size;
 		int pitch = PITCH(vc->vc_font.width);
 
-- 
2.18.4




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