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Message-ID: <20250428153407.3743416-3-m.masimov@mt-integration.ru>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:34:07 +0300
From: Murad Masimov <m.masimov@...integration.ru>
To: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
CC: Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Murad Masimov <m.masimov@...integration.ru>,
	Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <lvc-project@...uxtesting.org>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fbdev: Fix fb_ser_var to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var

If fb_add_videomode() in fb_set_var() fails to allocate memory for
fb_videomode, later it may lead to a null-ptr dereference in
fb_videomode_to_var(), as the fb_info is registered while not having the
mode in modelist that is expected to be there, i.e. the one that is
described in fb_info->var.

================================================================
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 30371 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.10.226-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:fb_videomode_to_var+0x24/0x610 drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c:901
Call Trace:
 display_to_var+0x3a/0x7c0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:929
 fbcon_resize+0x3e2/0x8f0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2071
 resize_screen drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1176 [inline]
 vc_do_resize+0x53a/0x1170 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1263
 fbcon_modechanged+0x3ac/0x6e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2720
 fbcon_update_vcs+0x43/0x60 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2776
 do_fb_ioctl+0x6d2/0x740 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1128
 fb_ioctl+0xe7/0x150 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:1203
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:739 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x19a/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
================================================================

The reason is that fb_info->var is being modified in fb_set_var(), and
then fb_videomode_to_var() is called. If it fails to add the mode to
fb_info->modelist, fb_set_var() returns error, but does not restore the
old value of fb_info->var. Restore fb_info->var on fail the same way it
is done earlier in the function.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Murad Masimov <m.masimov@...integration.ru>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index e1557d80768f..eca2498f2436 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -328,8 +328,10 @@ fb_set_var(struct fb_info *info, struct fb_var_screeninfo *var)
 	    !list_empty(&info->modelist))
 		ret = fb_add_videomode(&mode, &info->modelist);

-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		info->var = old_var;
 		return ret;
+	}

 	event.info = info;
 	event.data = &mode;
--
2.39.2