From d5392c1c64f99713d487d10debbd1d5e826d5fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 21:39:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] fbmem: Reject FB_ACTIVATE_KD_TEXT from userspace MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit 6fd33a3333c7916689b8f051a185defe4dd515b0 upstream. This is an oversight from dc5bdb68b5b3 ("drm/fb-helper: Fix vt restore") - I failed to realize that nasty userspace could set this. It's not pretty to mix up kernel-internal and userspace uapi flags like this, but since the entire fb_var_screeninfo structure is uapi we'd need to either add a new parameter to the ->fb_set_par callback and fb_set_par() function, which has a _lot_ of users. Or some other fairly ugly side-channel int fb_info. Neither is a pretty prospect. Instead just correct the issue at hand by filtering out this kernel-internal flag in the ioctl handling code. Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Fixes: dc5bdb68b5b3 ("drm/fb-helper: Fix vt restore") Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: shlomo@fastmail.com Cc: Michel Dänzer Cc: Noralf Trønnes Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: David Airlie Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: # v5.7+ Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Qiujun Huang Cc: Peter Rosin Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Shigeru Yoshida Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230404193934.472457-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c index 14ef3aab7663..221f3cfd13e2 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c @@ -1116,6 +1116,8 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd, case FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: if (copy_from_user(&var, argp, sizeof(var))) return -EFAULT; + /* only for kernel-internal use */ + var.activate &= ~FB_ACTIVATE_KD_TEXT; console_lock(); lock_fb_info(info); ret = fbcon_modechange_possible(info, &var);