linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 116/131] vt: dont use kmalloc() for the unicode screen buffer

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:25:28 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 116/131] vt: dont use kmalloc() for the unicode screen buffer

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>

commit 9a98e7a80f95378c9ee0c644705e3b5aa54745f1 upstream.

Even if the actual screen size is bounded in vc_do_resize(), the unicode
buffer is still a little more than twice the size of the glyph buffer
and may exceed MAX_ORDER down the kmalloc() path. This can be triggered
from user space.

Since there is no point having a physically contiguous buffer here,
let's avoid the above issue as well as reducing pressure on high order
allocations by using vmalloc() instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2003282214210.2671@knanqh.ubzr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kd.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/major.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ static struct uni_screen *vc_uniscr_allo
 	/* allocate everything in one go */
 	memsize = cols * rows * sizeof(char32_t);
 	memsize += rows * sizeof(char32_t *);
-	p = kmalloc(memsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = vmalloc(memsize);
 	if (!p)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -366,7 +367,7 @@ static struct uni_screen *vc_uniscr_allo
 
 static void vc_uniscr_set(struct vc_data *vc, struct uni_screen *new_uniscr)
 {
-	kfree(vc->vc_uni_screen);
+	vfree(vc->vc_uni_screen);
 	vc->vc_uni_screen = new_uniscr;
 }