On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:53:29PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> syzbot is reporting general protection fault in do_con_write() [1] caused
> by vc->vc_screenbuf == ZERO_SIZE_PTR caused by vc->vc_screenbuf_size == 0
> caused by vc->vc_cols == vc->vc_rows == vc->vc_size_row == 0 being passed
> to ioctl(FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO) request on /dev/fb0 , for gotoxy(vc, 0, 0)
>  from reset_terminal() from vc_init() from vc_allocate() on such console
> causes vc->vc_pos == 0x10000000e due to
> ((unsigned long) ZERO_SIZE_PTR) + -1U * 0 + (-1U << 1).
> 
> I don't think that a console with 0 column and/or 0 row makes sense, and
> I think that we can reject such bogus arguments in fb_set_var() from
> ioctl(FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO). Regardless, I think that it is safer to also
> check ZERO_SIZE_PTR when allocating vc->vc_screenbuf from vc_allocate()
>  from con_install() from tty_init_dev() from tty_open().
> 
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=017265e8553724e514e8
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+017265e8553724e51...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> index 48a8199f7845..8497e9206607 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> @@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons)  /* return 0 on 
> success */
>               con_set_default_unimap(vc);
>  
>       vc->vc_screenbuf = kzalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -     if (!vc->vc_screenbuf)
> +     if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(vc->vc_screenbuf))

No, let's check this before we do kzalloc() please, that's just an odd
way of doing an allocation we shouldn't have had to do.

>               goto err_free;
>  
>       /* If no drivers have overridden us and the user didn't pass a
> @@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct 
> vc_data *vc,
>       if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
>               return 0;
>  
> -     if (new_screen_size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> +     if (new_screen_size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE || !new_screen_size)
>               return -EINVAL;
>       newscreen = kzalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER);
>       if (!newscreen)
> @@ -3393,6 +3393,7 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
>               INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
>               tty_port_init(&vc->port);
>               visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
> +             /* Assuming vc->vc_screenbuf_size is sane here, for this is 
> __init code. */

Shouldn't we also check this here, or before we get here, too?

Just checking the values and rejecting that as a valid screen size
should be sufficient.

thanks,

greg k-h

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