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<title>tty/vt: fix write/write race in ioctl(KDSKBSENT) handler</title>
<updated>2019-09-23T20:11:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergei Trofimovich</name>
<email>slyfox@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-10T21:24:15+00:00</published>
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commit 46ca3f735f345c9d87383dd3a09fa5d43870770e upstream.

The bug manifests as an attempt to access deallocated memory:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff9c8735448000
    #PF error: [PROT] [WRITE]
    PGD 288a05067 P4D 288a05067 PUD 288a07067 PMD 7f60c2063 PTE 80000007f5448161
    Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
    CPU: 6 PID: 388 Comm: loadkeys Tainted: G         C        5.0.0-rc6-00153-g5ded5871030e #91
    Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M-D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013
    RIP: 0010:__memmove+0x81/0x1a0
    Code: 4c 89 4f 10 4c 89 47 18 48 8d 7f 20 73 d4 48 83 c2 20 e9 a2 00 00 00 66 90 48 89 d1 4c 8b 5c 16 f8 4c 8d 54 17 f8 48 c1 e9 03 &lt;f3&gt; 48 a5 4d 89 1a e9 0c 01 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 d1 4c 8b 1e 49
    RSP: 0018:ffffa1b9002d7d08 EFLAGS: 00010203
    RAX: ffff9c873541af43 RBX: ffff9c873541af43 RCX: 00000c6f105cd6bf
    RDX: 0000637882e986b6 RSI: ffff9c8735447ffb RDI: ffff9c8735447ffb
    RBP: ffff9c8739cd3800 R08: ffff9c873b802f00 R09: 00000000fffff73b
    R10: ffffffffb82b35f1 R11: 00505b1b004d5b1b R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff9c873541af3d R14: 000000000000000b R15: 000000000000000c
    FS:  00007f450c390580(0000) GS:ffff9c873f180000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffff9c8735448000 CR3: 00000007e213c002 CR4: 00000000000606e0
    Call Trace:
     vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl+0x34d/0x440
     vt_ioctl+0xba3/0x1190
     ? __bpf_prog_run32+0x39/0x60
     ? mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x7b/0x4e0
     tty_ioctl+0x23f/0x920
     ? preempt_count_sub+0x98/0xe0
     ? __seccomp_filter+0x67/0x600
     do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x6a0
     ? syscall_trace_enter+0x192/0x2d0
     ksys_ioctl+0x3a/0x70
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
     do_syscall_64+0x54/0xe0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The bug manifests on systemd systems with multiple vtcon devices:
  # cat /sys/devices/virtual/vtconsole/vtcon0/name
  (S) dummy device
  # cat /sys/devices/virtual/vtconsole/vtcon1/name
  (M) frame buffer device

There systemd runs 'loadkeys' tool in tapallel for each vtcon
instance. This causes two parallel ioctl(KDSKBSENT) calls to
race into adding the same entry into 'func_table' array at:

    drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl()

The function has no locking around writes to 'func_table'.

The simplest reproducer is to have initrams with the following
init on a 8-CPU machine x86_64:

    #!/bin/sh

    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;

    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    wait

The change adds lock on write path only. Reads are still racy.

CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
CC: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/17/256
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 46ca3f735f345c9d87383dd3a09fa5d43870770e upstream.

The bug manifests as an attempt to access deallocated memory:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff9c8735448000
    #PF error: [PROT] [WRITE]
    PGD 288a05067 P4D 288a05067 PUD 288a07067 PMD 7f60c2063 PTE 80000007f5448161
    Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
    CPU: 6 PID: 388 Comm: loadkeys Tainted: G         C        5.0.0-rc6-00153-g5ded5871030e #91
    Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M-D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013
    RIP: 0010:__memmove+0x81/0x1a0
    Code: 4c 89 4f 10 4c 89 47 18 48 8d 7f 20 73 d4 48 83 c2 20 e9 a2 00 00 00 66 90 48 89 d1 4c 8b 5c 16 f8 4c 8d 54 17 f8 48 c1 e9 03 &lt;f3&gt; 48 a5 4d 89 1a e9 0c 01 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 d1 4c 8b 1e 49
    RSP: 0018:ffffa1b9002d7d08 EFLAGS: 00010203
    RAX: ffff9c873541af43 RBX: ffff9c873541af43 RCX: 00000c6f105cd6bf
    RDX: 0000637882e986b6 RSI: ffff9c8735447ffb RDI: ffff9c8735447ffb
    RBP: ffff9c8739cd3800 R08: ffff9c873b802f00 R09: 00000000fffff73b
    R10: ffffffffb82b35f1 R11: 00505b1b004d5b1b R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff9c873541af3d R14: 000000000000000b R15: 000000000000000c
    FS:  00007f450c390580(0000) GS:ffff9c873f180000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffff9c8735448000 CR3: 00000007e213c002 CR4: 00000000000606e0
    Call Trace:
     vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl+0x34d/0x440
     vt_ioctl+0xba3/0x1190
     ? __bpf_prog_run32+0x39/0x60
     ? mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x7b/0x4e0
     tty_ioctl+0x23f/0x920
     ? preempt_count_sub+0x98/0xe0
     ? __seccomp_filter+0x67/0x600
     do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x6a0
     ? syscall_trace_enter+0x192/0x2d0
     ksys_ioctl+0x3a/0x70
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
     do_syscall_64+0x54/0xe0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The bug manifests on systemd systems with multiple vtcon devices:
  # cat /sys/devices/virtual/vtconsole/vtcon0/name
  (S) dummy device
  # cat /sys/devices/virtual/vtconsole/vtcon1/name
  (M) frame buffer device

There systemd runs 'loadkeys' tool in tapallel for each vtcon
instance. This causes two parallel ioctl(KDSKBSENT) calls to
race into adding the same entry into 'func_table' array at:

    drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl()

The function has no locking around writes to 'func_table'.

The simplest reproducer is to have initrams with the following
init on a 8-CPU machine x86_64:

    #!/bin/sh

    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;

    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    loadkeys -q windowkeys ru4 &amp;
    wait

The change adds lock on write path only. Reads are still racy.

CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
CC: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/17/256
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vt: invoke notifier on screen size change</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T20:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-09T03:55:01+00:00</published>
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commit 0c9b1965faddad7534b6974b5b36c4ad37998f8e upstream.

User space using poll() on /dev/vcs devices are not awaken when a
screen size change occurs. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 0c9b1965faddad7534b6974b5b36c4ad37998f8e upstream.

User space using poll() on /dev/vcs devices are not awaken when a
screen size change occurs. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vt: always call notifier with the console lock held</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T20:41:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-09T03:55:00+00:00</published>
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commit 7e1d226345f89ad5d0216a9092c81386c89b4983 upstream.

Every invocation of notify_write() and notify_update() is performed
under the console lock, except for one case. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7e1d226345f89ad5d0216a9092c81386c89b4983 upstream.

Every invocation of notify_write() and notify_update() is performed
under the console lock, except for one case. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1</title>
<updated>2018-12-16T22:09:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T20:30:38+00:00</published>
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commit e97267cb4d1ee01ca0929638ec0fcbb0904f903d upstream.

vsa.console is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

This issue was detected with the help of Smatch:

drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:711 vt_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue
'vc_cons' [r]

Fix this by sanitizing vsa.console before using it to index vc_cons

Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
completed with a dependent load/store [1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=152449131114778&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e97267cb4d1ee01ca0929638ec0fcbb0904f903d upstream.

vsa.console is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

This issue was detected with the help of Smatch:

drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:711 vt_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue
'vc_cons' [r]

Fix this by sanitizing vsa.console before using it to index vc_cons

Notice that given that speculation windows are large, the policy is
to kill the speculation on the first load and not worry if it can be
completed with a dependent load/store [1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=152449131114778&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vt: prevent leaking uninitialized data to userspace via /dev/vcs*</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T18:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T10:23:09+00:00</published>
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commit 21eff69aaaa0e766ca0ce445b477698dc6a9f55a upstream.

KMSAN reported an infoleak when reading from /dev/vcs*:

  BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in vcs_read+0x18ba/0x1cc0
  Call Trace:
  ...
   kmsan_copy_to_user+0x7a/0x160 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1253
   copy_to_user ./include/linux/uaccess.h:184
   vcs_read+0x18ba/0x1cc0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:352
   __vfs_read+0x1b2/0x9d0 fs/read_write.c:416
   vfs_read+0x36c/0x6b0 fs/read_write.c:452
  ...
  Uninit was created at:
   kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:279
   kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb8/0x1b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:189
   kmsan_kmalloc+0x94/0x100 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:315
   __kmalloc+0x13a/0x350 mm/slub.c:3818
   kmalloc ./include/linux/slab.h:517
   vc_allocate+0x438/0x800 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:787
   con_install+0x8c/0x640 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2880
   tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1224
   tty_init_dev+0x1b5/0x1020 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1324
   tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1959
   tty_open+0x17b4/0x2ed0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2007
   chrdev_open+0xc25/0xd90 fs/char_dev.c:417
   do_dentry_open+0xccc/0x1440 fs/open.c:794
   vfs_open+0x1b6/0x2f0 fs/open.c:908
  ...
  Bytes 0-79 of 240 are uninitialized

Consistently allocating |vc_screenbuf| with kzalloc() fixes the problem

Reported-by: syzbot+17a8efdf800000@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 21eff69aaaa0e766ca0ce445b477698dc6a9f55a upstream.

KMSAN reported an infoleak when reading from /dev/vcs*:

  BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in vcs_read+0x18ba/0x1cc0
  Call Trace:
  ...
   kmsan_copy_to_user+0x7a/0x160 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1253
   copy_to_user ./include/linux/uaccess.h:184
   vcs_read+0x18ba/0x1cc0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:352
   __vfs_read+0x1b2/0x9d0 fs/read_write.c:416
   vfs_read+0x36c/0x6b0 fs/read_write.c:452
  ...
  Uninit was created at:
   kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:279
   kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb8/0x1b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:189
   kmsan_kmalloc+0x94/0x100 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:315
   __kmalloc+0x13a/0x350 mm/slub.c:3818
   kmalloc ./include/linux/slab.h:517
   vc_allocate+0x438/0x800 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:787
   con_install+0x8c/0x640 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2880
   tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1224
   tty_init_dev+0x1b5/0x1020 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1324
   tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1959
   tty_open+0x17b4/0x2ed0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2007
   chrdev_open+0xc25/0xd90 fs/char_dev.c:417
   do_dentry_open+0xccc/0x1440 fs/open.c:794
   vfs_open+0x1b6/0x2f0 fs/open.c:908
  ...
  Bytes 0-79 of 240 are uninitialized

Consistently allocating |vc_screenbuf| with kzalloc() fixes the problem

Reported-by: syzbot+17a8efdf800000@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: vt, get rid of weird source code flow</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T18:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-31T08:08:15+00:00</published>
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commit 34902b7f2754e6d890feb0cee34187f1bc75c930 upstream.

Some code in vc_allocate is indented by 4 spaces. It is inside a
condition. Invert the condition and move the code to the first
indentation level (using \tab). And insert some empty lines to have
logical code blocks separated.

Then, instead of freeing in an 'if' false branch, use goto-error
label as fail path.

Maybe better to look at this patch with diff -w -b.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 34902b7f2754e6d890feb0cee34187f1bc75c930 upstream.

Some code in vc_allocate is indented by 4 spaces. It is inside a
condition. Invert the condition and move the code to the first
indentation level (using \tab). And insert some empty lines to have
logical code blocks separated.

Then, instead of freeing in an 'if' false branch, use goto-error
label as fail path.

Maybe better to look at this patch with diff -w -b.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: vt, remove reduntant check</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T18:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-31T08:08:14+00:00</published>
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commit 182846a00f489849c55d113954f0c4a8a286ca39 upstream.

MAX_NR_CONSOLES and MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES are both 63 since they were
introduced in 1.1.54. And since vc_allocate does:

if (currcons &gt;= MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
	return -ENXIO;

if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) {
	if (currcons &gt;= MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES &amp;&amp; !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
		return -EPERM;
}

the second check is pointless. Remove both the check and the macro
MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Fugang Duan &lt;fugang.duan@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 182846a00f489849c55d113954f0c4a8a286ca39 upstream.

MAX_NR_CONSOLES and MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES are both 63 since they were
introduced in 1.1.54. And since vc_allocate does:

if (currcons &gt;= MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
	return -ENXIO;

if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) {
	if (currcons &gt;= MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES &amp;&amp; !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
		return -EPERM;
}

the second check is pointless. Remove both the check and the macro
MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Fugang Duan &lt;fugang.duan@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards</title>
<updated>2018-10-21T07:44:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-29T22:08:21+00:00</published>
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commit 65d9982d7e523a1a8e7c9af012da0d166f72fc56 upstream.

ECMA-48 [1] (aka ISO 6429) has defined SGR 21 as "doubly underlined"
since at least March 1984.  The Linux kernel has treated it as SGR 22
"normal intensity" since it was added in Linux-0.96b in June 1992.
Before that, it was simply ignored.  Other terminal emulators have
either ignored it, or treat it as double underline now.  xterm for
example added support in its 304 release (May 2014) [2] where it was
previously ignoring it.

Changing this behavior shouldn't be an issue:
- It isn't a named capability in ncurses's terminfo database, so no
  script is using libtinfo/libcurses to look this up, or using tput
  to query &amp; output the right sequence.
- Any script assuming SGR 21 will reset intensity in all terminals
  already do not work correctly on non-Linux VTs (including running
  under screen/tmux/etc...).
- If someone has written a script that only runs in the Linux VT, and
  they're using SGR 21 (instead of SGR 22), the output should still
  be readable.

imo it's important to change this as the Linux VT's non-conformance
is sometimes used as an argument for other terminal emulators to not
implement SGR 21 at all, or do so incorrectly.

[1]: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm
[2]: https://github.com/ThomasDickey/xterm-snapshots/commit/2fd29cb98d214cb536bcafbee00bc73b3f1eeb9d

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 65d9982d7e523a1a8e7c9af012da0d166f72fc56 upstream.

ECMA-48 [1] (aka ISO 6429) has defined SGR 21 as "doubly underlined"
since at least March 1984.  The Linux kernel has treated it as SGR 22
"normal intensity" since it was added in Linux-0.96b in June 1992.
Before that, it was simply ignored.  Other terminal emulators have
either ignored it, or treat it as double underline now.  xterm for
example added support in its 304 release (May 2014) [2] where it was
previously ignoring it.

Changing this behavior shouldn't be an issue:
- It isn't a named capability in ncurses's terminfo database, so no
  script is using libtinfo/libcurses to look this up, or using tput
  to query &amp; output the right sequence.
- Any script assuming SGR 21 will reset intensity in all terminals
  already do not work correctly on non-Linux VTs (including running
  under screen/tmux/etc...).
- If someone has written a script that only runs in the Linux VT, and
  they're using SGR 21 (instead of SGR 22), the output should still
  be readable.

imo it's important to change this as the Linux VT's non-conformance
is sometimes used as an argument for other terminal emulators to not
implement SGR 21 at all, or do so incorrectly.

[1]: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm
[2]: https://github.com/ThomasDickey/xterm-snapshots/commit/2fd29cb98d214cb536bcafbee00bc73b3f1eeb9d

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: vt: fix up tabstops properly</title>
<updated>2018-06-16T21:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-24T09:43:26+00:00</published>
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commit f1869a890cdedb92a3fab969db5d0fd982850273 upstream.

Tabs on a console with long lines do not wrap properly, so correctly
account for the line length when computing the tab placement location.

Reported-by: James Holderness &lt;j4_james@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f1869a890cdedb92a3fab969db5d0fd982850273 upstream.

Tabs on a console with long lines do not wrap properly, so correctly
account for the line length when computing the tab placement location.

Reported-by: James Holderness &lt;j4_james@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vt: fix unchecked __put_user() in tioclinux ioctls</title>
<updated>2017-10-12T14:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Borowski</name>
<email>kilobyte@angband.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:35:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f85c50878fc8c38b2c034063cd886b6bdb67ab42'/>
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commit 6987dc8a70976561d22450b5858fc9767788cc1c upstream.

Only read access is checked before this call.

Actually, at the moment this is not an issue, as every in-tree arch does
the same manual checks for VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE, relying on the MMU
to tell them apart, but this wasn't the case in the past and may happen
again on some odd arch in the future.

If anyone cares about 3.7 and earlier, this is a security hole (untested)
on real 80386 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 6987dc8a70976561d22450b5858fc9767788cc1c upstream.

Only read access is checked before this call.

Actually, at the moment this is not an issue, as every in-tree arch does
the same manual checks for VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE, relying on the MMU
to tell them apart, but this wasn't the case in the past and may happen
again on some odd arch in the future.

If anyone cares about 3.7 and earlier, this is a security hole (untested)
on real 80386 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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