[PATCH] fbcon: Avoid showing softcursor if font not available

Helge Deller deller at gmx.de
Sat May 27 09:19:02 UTC 2023


syzbot repored this bug in the softcursor code:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in soft_cursor+0x384/0x6b4 drivers/video/fbdev/core/softcursor.c:70
Read of size 16 at addr 0000000000000200 by task kworker/u4:1/12

CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc3-syzkaller-geb0f1697d729 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/28/2023
Workqueue: events_power_efficient fb_flashcursor
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x1b8/0x1e4 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:233
 show_stack+0x2c/0x44 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:240
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd0/0x124 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_report+0xe4/0x514 mm/kasan/report.c:465
 kasan_report+0xd4/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:572
 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2a4 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 __asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x84 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
 soft_cursor+0x384/0x6b4 drivers/video/fbdev/core/softcursor.c:70
 bit_cursor+0x113c/0x1a64 drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c:377
 fb_flashcursor+0x35c/0x54c drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:380
 process_one_work+0x788/0x12d4 kernel/workqueue.c:2405
 worker_thread+0x8e0/0xfe8 kernel/workqueue.c:2552
 kthread+0x288/0x310 kernel/kthread.c:379
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:853

This fix let bit_cursor() bail out early when a font bitmap
isn't available yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+d910bd780e6efac35869 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
index f98e8f298bc1..8587c9da0670 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ static void bit_cursor(struct vc_data *vc, struct fb_info *info, int mode,

 	cursor.set = 0;

+	if (!vc->vc_font.data)
+		return;
+
  	c = scr_readw((u16 *) vc->vc_pos);
 	attribute = get_attribute(info, c);
 	src = vc->vc_font.data + ((c & charmask) * (w * vc->vc_font.height));
--
2.40.1



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