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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:43:44 +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>, syzbot+0bfda3ade1ee9288a1be@...kaller.appspotmail.com, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> Subject: [PATCH 5.6 005/118] vt: fix unicode console freeing with a common interface From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net> [ Upstream commit 57d38f26d81e4275748b69372f31df545dcd9b71 ] By directly using kfree() in different places we risk missing one if it is switched to using vfree(), especially if the corresponding vmalloc() is hidden away within a common abstraction. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened here. So let's fix this by creating a common abstraction for the free case as well. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net> Reported-by: syzbot+0bfda3ade1ee9288a1be@...kaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 9a98e7a80f95 ("vt: don't use kmalloc() for the unicode screen buffer") Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2005021043110.2671@knanqh.ubzr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index cc1a041913654..699d8b56cbe75 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -365,9 +365,14 @@ static struct uni_screen *vc_uniscr_alloc(unsigned int cols, unsigned int rows) return uniscr; } +static void vc_uniscr_free(struct uni_screen *uniscr) +{ + vfree(uniscr); +} + static void vc_uniscr_set(struct vc_data *vc, struct uni_screen *new_uniscr) { - vfree(vc->vc_uni_screen); + vc_uniscr_free(vc->vc_uni_screen); vc->vc_uni_screen = new_uniscr; } @@ -1230,7 +1235,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc, err = resize_screen(vc, new_cols, new_rows, user); if (err) { kfree(newscreen); - kfree(new_uniscr); + vc_uniscr_free(new_uniscr); return err; } -- 2.20.1
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