Greg, will you pick up this patch?
It seems that finding the real cause of [3] and actually fixing [3] will be
difficult.
Since I can't reproduce [3] locally, I will have to try flood of "#syz test"
requests
for debug printk() patches.
On 2020/09/11 7:57, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 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+b38b1ef6edf0c74a8...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@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.kenn...@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);
>
>
