linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual

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Message-ID: <782f3255-3a25-4620-e97c-2f742e733f32@samsung.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 13:24:49 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual_init() after
 failed memory allocation


On 4/26/19 4:59 PM, Grzegorz Halat wrote:
> After memory allocation failure vc_allocate() doesn't clean up data
> which has been initialized in visual_init(). In case of fbcon this
> leads to divide-by-0 in fbcon_init() on next open of the same tty.
> 
> memory allocation in vc_allocate() may fail here:
> 1097:     vc->vc_screenbuf = kzalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> on next open() fbcon_init() skips vc_font.data initialization:
> 1088:     if (!p->fontdata) {
> 
> division by zero in fbcon_init() happens here:
> 1149:     new_cols /= vc->vc_font.width;
> 
> Additional check is needed in fbcon_deinit() to prevent
> usage of uninitialized vc_screenbuf:
> 
> 1251:        if (vc->vc_hi_font_mask && vc->vc_screenbuf)
> 1252:                set_vc_hi_font(vc, false);
> 
> Crash:
> 
>  #6 [ffffc90001eafa60] divide_error at ffffffff81a00be4
>     [exception RIP: fbcon_init+463]
>     RIP: ffffffff814b860f  RSP: ffffc90001eafb18  RFLAGS: 00010246
> ...
>  #7 [ffffc90001eafb60] visual_init at ffffffff8154c36e
>  #8 [ffffc90001eafb80] vc_allocate at ffffffff8154f53c
>  #9 [ffffc90001eafbc8] con_install at ffffffff8154f624
> ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics