[PATCH V3] fbdev: Fix out-of-bounds access when rotating console after font resize
Zizhi Wo <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:12:04 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-fbdev,org.freedesktop.lists.dri-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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From: Zizhi Wo <[email protected]> [BUG] Recently, we encountered a KASAN warning as follows: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ccw_putcs+0x8bd/0xa80 Read of size 1 at addr ff11000110067100 by task bash/1209 CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 1209 Comm: bash Not tainted 7.2.0-rc3 #69 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> ... kasan_report+0xf0/0x120 ? ccw_putcs+0x8bd/0xa80 ccw_putcs+0x8bd/0xa80 ? __pfx_ccw_putcs+0x10/0x10 fbcon_putcs+0x338/0x410 ? __pfx_ccw_putcs+0x10/0x10 do_update_region+0x21d/0x450 invert_screen+0x29d/0x5e0 ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x493/0x640 ? vc_do_resize+0x17c/0xe50 clear_selection+0x4c/0x60 vc_do_resize+0xaee/0xe50 fbcon_modechanged+0x2bd/0x640 rotate_all_store+0x298/0x380 ... reproduce: 1) issue two ioctls: first a KDFONTOP ioctl with op.op = KD_FONT_OP_SET, op.width = 1 and op.height = 1, then a TIOCL_SETSEL ioctl 2) echo 2 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon/rotate_all 3) issue two ioctls: first a KDFONTOP ioctl with op.op = KD_FONT_OP_SET, op.width = 8 and op.height = 1, then a TIOCL_SETSEL ioctl 4) echo 3 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon/rotate_all [CAUSE] The root cause is that fbcon_modechanged() first sets the current rotate's corresponding ops. Subsequently, during vc_resize(), it may trigger clear_selection(), and in fbcon_putcs->ccw_putcs[rotate=3], this can result in an out-of-bounds access to "src". This happens because par->rotated.buf is reallocated in fbcon_rotate_font(): 1) When rotate=2, its size is (width + 7) / 8 * height 2) When rotate=3, its size is (height + 7) / 8 * width And the call to fbcon_rotate_font() occurs after clear_selection(). In other words, the fontbuffer is allocated using the size calculated from the previous rotation 2, but before reallocating it with the new size, con_putcs is already using the new rotation 3: rotate_all_store fbcon_rotate_all fbcon_set_all_vcs fbcon_modechanged set_blitting_type ... par->bitops = &ccw_fbcon_bitops vc_resize ... clear_selection highlight ... do_update_region fbcon_putcs ... image.dy = vyres - ((xx + count) * vc->vc_font.width) [1] // overflow! ccw_putcs_aligned // old buf size is still being used during the read! src = par->rotated.buf + (scr_readw(s--) & charmask) * cellsize fb_pad_aligned_buffer----[src KASAN!!!] [2] info->fbops->fb_imageblit(info, image) sys_imageblit fb_imageblit fb_address_forward // offset: image->dy * bits_per_line + image->dx * bpp unsigned int bits = (unsigned int)adr->bits + offset adr->address += (bits & ~(BITS_PER_LONG - 1u)) / BITS_PER_BYTE [3] fb_bitmap_imageblit ... fb_read_offset // page fault! [4] update_screen redraw_screen ... ccw_cursor soft_cursor memcpy(src, image->data, dsize)----[src KASAN again!!!] [5] fbcon_switch fbcon_rotate_font font_data_rotate dst = kmalloc_array(charcount, d_cellsize, GFP_KERNEL) // the new size is allocated only here! par->rotated.buf = buf [6] [FIX] A fairly obvious approach is to follow fbcon_switch(): in fbcon_modechanged(), call rotate_font() before vc_resize() so that a correctly sized buffer is allocated in time, as done in [6]. This fix is necessary, but it is not sufficient on its own. In [1] it causes an image.dy overflow (ccw_putcs: vyres = 768, image.dy = 4294967040), because vc_cols has not been updated in time at this point (it is likewise only updated after clear_selection()). This allows (xx + count) * width to exceed vyres, causing image.dy to overflow. Subsequently, address in [3] is incremented by an even larger amount, which triggers a page fault at [4]. Therefore, a second fix is required in combination with the first: move clear_selection() earlier, before set_blitting_type() in fbcon_set_all_vcs(), to prevent the out-of-bounds access. fbcon_rotate() has a similar problem, so add the same clear there. Since vc_is_sel() is not exported, the fbdev side is currently forced to call clear_selection() unconditionally, causing the global selection to be cleared prematurely. And this will not cause any other significant impact. Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <[email protected]> --- v3: Add comments. v2: Fixed the issue by calling clear_selection() earlier, and updated the related description in the commit message. https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ --- --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c index 9f5c4c101581..23b3c536d53d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c @@ -2639,13 +2639,35 @@ static void fbcon_modechanged(struct fb_info *info) vc = vc_cons[par->currcon].d; if (vc->vc_mode != KD_TEXT || fbcon_info_from_console(par->currcon) != info) return; + /* + * Clear the selection before switching bitops. Without this, the + * clear_selection() inside vc_resize() below repaints the highlighted + * cells through the new bitops while the console geometry(vc_rows/vc_cols) + * has not been updated to match, so the repaint is computed from a + * half-switched geometry and overflows the framebuffer address. + * Pre-clearing makes that repaint a no-op. + */ + clear_selection(); + p = &fb_display[vc->vc_num]; set_blitting_type(vc, info); + /* + * Rebuild par->rotated.buf for the new rotation now that bitops have + * switched. The new putcs/cursor ops read this buffer; if it is still + * sized for the old rotation, fbcon_putcs() and the cursor path reached + * via update_screen() below overflow it. Mirrors fbcon_switch(); fall + * back to unrotated rendering on allocation failure. + */ + if (par->bitops->rotate_font && par->bitops->rotate_font(info, vc)) { + par->rotate = FB_ROTATE_UR; + set_blitting_type(vc, info); + } + if (con_is_visible(vc)) { var_to_display(p, &info->var, info); cols = FBCON_SWAP(par->rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres); rows = FBCON_SWAP(par->rotate, info->var.yres, info->var.xres); cols /= vc->vc_font.width; @@ -2673,10 +2695,13 @@ static void fbcon_set_all_vcs(struct fb_info *info) int i, rows, cols, fg = -1; if (!par || par->currcon < 0) return; + /* See the comment in fbcon_modechanged(). */ + clear_selection(); + for (i = first_fb_vc; i <= last_fb_vc; i++) { vc = vc_cons[i].d; if (!vc || vc->vc_mode != KD_TEXT || fbcon_info_from_console(i) != info) continue; -- 2.52.0