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Message-ID: <cc1e8193-6588-4e75-896e-b807f451fb4c@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:29:36 +0200
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@...el.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
 Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Zsolt Kajtar <soci@....rulez.org>
Cc: Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@...il.com>,
 linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
 syzbot+793cf822d213be1a74f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: bitblit: bound-check glyph index in bit_putcs*

Hi

Am 20.10.25 um 15:47 schrieb Junjie Cao:
> bit_putcs_aligned()/unaligned() derived the glyph pointer from the
> character value masked by 0xff/0x1ff, which may exceed the actual font's
> glyph count and read past the end of the built-in font array.
> Clamp the index to the actual glyph count before computing the address.
>
> This fixes a global out-of-bounds read reported by syzbot.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+793cf822d213be1a74f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=793cf822d213be1a74f2
> Tested-by: syzbot+793cf822d213be1a74f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>

Thanks for fixing the bug.

Best regards
Thomas

> ---
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fbdev/5d237d1a-a528-4205-a4d8-71709134f1e1@suse.de/
> v1 -> v2:
>   - Fix indentation and add blank line after declarations with the .pl helper
>   - No functional changes
>
>   drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
> index 9d2e59796c3e..085ffb44c51a 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
> @@ -79,12 +79,16 @@ static inline void bit_putcs_aligned(struct vc_data *vc, struct fb_info *info,
>   				     struct fb_image *image, u8 *buf, u8 *dst)
>   {
>   	u16 charmask = vc->vc_hi_font_mask ? 0x1ff : 0xff;
> +	unsigned int charcnt = vc->vc_font.charcount;
>   	u32 idx = vc->vc_font.width >> 3;
>   	u8 *src;
>   
>   	while (cnt--) {
> -		src = vc->vc_font.data + (scr_readw(s++)&
> -					  charmask)*cellsize;
> +		u16 ch = scr_readw(s++) & charmask;
> +
> +		if (ch >= charcnt)
> +			ch = 0;
> +		src = vc->vc_font.data + (unsigned int)ch * cellsize;
>   
>   		if (attr) {
>   			update_attr(buf, src, attr, vc);
> @@ -112,14 +116,18 @@ static inline void bit_putcs_unaligned(struct vc_data *vc,
>   				       u8 *dst)
>   {
>   	u16 charmask = vc->vc_hi_font_mask ? 0x1ff : 0xff;
> +	unsigned int charcnt = vc->vc_font.charcount;
>   	u32 shift_low = 0, mod = vc->vc_font.width % 8;
>   	u32 shift_high = 8;
>   	u32 idx = vc->vc_font.width >> 3;
>   	u8 *src;
>   
>   	while (cnt--) {
> -		src = vc->vc_font.data + (scr_readw(s++)&
> -					  charmask)*cellsize;
> +		u16 ch = scr_readw(s++) & charmask;
> +
> +		if (ch >= charcnt)
> +			ch = 0;
> +		src = vc->vc_font.data + (unsigned int)ch * cellsize;
>   
>   		if (attr) {
>   			update_attr(buf, src, attr, vc);

-- 
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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
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