[PATCH v2 1/4] fbcon: Disallow setting font bigger than screen size

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 04:53:25PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 6/25/22 14:45, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 02:24:59PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> >> Prevent that users set a font size which is bigger than the physical screen.
> >> It's unlikely this may happen (because screens are usually much larger than the
> >> fonts and each font char is limited to 32x32 pixels), but it may happen on
> >> smaller screens/LCD displays.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
> >> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 5 +++++
> >>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> >> index c4e91715ef00..e162d5e753e5 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> >> @@ -2469,6 +2469,11 @@ static int fbcon_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, struct console_font *font,
> >>  	if (charcount != 256 && charcount != 512)
> >>  		return -EINVAL;
> >>
> >> +	/* font bigger than screen resolution ? */
> >> +	if (font->width  > FBCON_SWAP(info->var.rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres) ||
> >> +	    font->height > FBCON_SWAP(info->var.rotate, info->var.yres, info->var.xres))
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Maybe as a safety follow up patch, we have a few copies of the below:
> >
> > 	cols = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres);
> > 	rows = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.yres, info->var.xres);
> > 	cols /= vc->vc_font.width;
> > 	rows /= vc->vc_font.height;
> >
> > Might be good to extract that into a helper and also add
> >
> > 	WARN_ON(!cols);
> > 	WARN_ON(!rows);
> 
> That's not needed then.
> The checks I added above will ensure that cols and rows are both greater than 0.

Yeah I reviewed it too, but I don't trust review all over the place.
Especially with something like fbcon with entry points from everywhere.
-Daniel

> > to make sure we really didn't screw this up and give syzkaller et all an
> > easier time finding bugs - it doesn't need to discover the full exploit,
> > only needs to get to this here.
> >
> > Also maybe even check that cols/rows is within reasons, like smaller than
> > BIT(24) or so (so that we have a bunch of headroom for overflows).
> 
> Not needed either.
> cols and rows is the screen size divided by an value between 1-32 (the max
> font size). So, since screen size is already the higest limit, cols&rows
> will always be smaller than screen size (and > 0).
> 
> Helge

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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