linux-stable.git/drivers/video/console, branch linux-5.4.y

Revert "vgacon: Add check for vc_origin address range in vgacon_scroll()"

2025-08-28T14:21:31+00:00

commit e4fc307d8e24f122402907ebf585248cad52841d upstream.

This reverts commit 864f9963ec6b4b76d104d595ba28110b87158003.

The patch is wrong as it checks vc_origin against vc_screenbuf,
while in text mode it should compare against vga_vram_base.

As such it broke VGA text scrolling, which can be reproduced like this:
(1) boot a kernel that is configured to use text mode VGA-console
(2) type commands:  ls -l /usr/bin | less -S
(3) scroll up/down with cursor-down/up keys

Reported-by: Jari Ruusu 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yi Yang 
Cc: GONG Ruiqi 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: Add check for vc_origin address range in vgacon_scroll()

2025-06-27T10:02:51+00:00

commit 864f9963ec6b4b76d104d595ba28110b87158003 upstream.

Our in-house Syzkaller reported the following BUG (twice), which we
believed was the same issue with [1]:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vcs_scr_readw+0xc2/0xd0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4740
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88800f5bef60 by task syz.7.2620/12393
...
Call Trace:
 
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x6b/0x3d0 mm/kasan/report.c:364
 print_report+0xba/0x280 mm/kasan/report.c:475
 kasan_report+0xa9/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:588
 vcs_scr_readw+0xc2/0xd0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4740
 vcs_write_buf_noattr drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:493 [inline]
 vcs_write+0x586/0x840 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:690
 vfs_write+0x219/0x960 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x12e/0x260 fs/read_write.c:639
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
 ...
 

Allocated by task 5614:
 kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1007 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x62/0x140 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 vc_do_resize+0x235/0xf40 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1193
 vgacon_adjust_height+0x2d4/0x350 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1007
 vgacon_font_set+0x1f7/0x240 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1031
 con_font_set drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4628 [inline]
 con_font_op+0x4da/0xa20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:4675
 vt_k_ioctl+0xa10/0xb30 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:474
 vt_ioctl+0x14c/0x1870 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:752
 tty_ioctl+0x655/0x1510 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2779
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x12d/0x190 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x94/0xa0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0xc3/0xa10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2713
 netlink_release+0x620/0xc20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:802
 __sock_release+0xb5/0x270 net/socket.c:663
 sock_close+0x1e/0x30 net/socket.c:1425
 __fput+0x408/0xab0 fs/file_table.c:384
 __fput_sync+0x4c/0x60 fs/file_table.c:465
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1580 [inline]
 __se_sys_close+0x68/0xd0 fs/open.c:1565
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x94/0xa0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0xc3/0xa10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2713
 netlink_release+0x620/0xc20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:802
 __sock_release+0xb5/0x270 net/socket.c:663
 sock_close+0x1e/0x30 net/socket.c:1425
 __fput+0x408/0xab0 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x154/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:239
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:45 [inline]
 do_exit+0x8e5/0x1320 kernel/exit.c:874
 do_group_exit+0xcd/0x280 kernel/exit.c:1023
 get_signal+0x1675/0x1850 kernel/signal.c:2905
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x80/0x3b0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:111 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:328 [inline]
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1b3/0x1e0 kernel/entry/common.c:218
 do_syscall_64+0x66/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800f5be000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 2656 bytes to the right of
 allocated 1280-byte region [ffff88800f5be000, ffff88800f5be500)

...

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88800f5bee00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88800f5bee80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88800f5bef00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                       ^
 ffff88800f5bef80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88800f5bf000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

By analyzing the vmcore, we found that vc->vc_origin was somehow placed
one line prior to vc->vc_screenbuf when vc was in KD_TEXT mode, and
further writings to /dev/vcs caused out-of-bounds reads (and writes
right after) in vcs_write_buf_noattr().

Our further experiments show that in most cases, vc->vc_origin equals to
vga_vram_base when the console is in KD_TEXT mode, and it's around
vc->vc_screenbuf for the KD_GRAPHICS mode. But via triggerring a
TIOCL_SETVESABLANK ioctl beforehand, we can make vc->vc_origin be around
vc->vc_screenbuf while the console is in KD_TEXT mode, and then by
writing the special 'ESC M' control sequence to the tty certain times
(depends on the value of `vc->state.y - vc->vc_top`), we can eventually
move vc->vc_origin prior to vc->vc_screenbuf. Here's the PoC, tested on
QEMU:

```
int main() {
	const int RI_NUM = 10; // should be greater than `vc->state.y - vc->vc_top`
	int tty_fd, vcs_fd;
	const char *tty_path = "/dev/tty0";
	const char *vcs_path = "/dev/vcs";
	const char escape_seq[] = "\x1bM";  // ESC + M
	const char trigger_seq[] = "Let's trigger an OOB write.";
	struct vt_sizes vt_size = { 70, 2 };
	int blank = TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN;

	tty_fd = open(tty_path, O_RDWR);

	char vesa_mode[] = { TIOCL_SETVESABLANK, 1 };
	ioctl(tty_fd, TIOCLINUX, vesa_mode);

	ioctl(tty_fd, TIOCLINUX, &blank);
	ioctl(tty_fd, VT_RESIZE, &vt_size);

	for (int i = 0; i < RI_NUM; ++i)
		write(tty_fd, escape_seq, sizeof(escape_seq) - 1);

	vcs_fd = open(vcs_path, O_RDWR);
	write(vcs_fd, trigger_seq, sizeof(trigger_seq));

	close(vcs_fd);
	close(tty_fd);
	return 0;
}
```

To solve this problem, add an address range validation check in
vgacon_scroll(), ensuring vc->vc_origin never precedes vc_screenbuf.

Reported-by: syzbot+9c09fda97a1a65ea859b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9c09fda97a1a65ea859b [1]
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Yi Yang 
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang 
Signed-off-by: GONG Ruiqi 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mdacon: rework dependency list

2025-04-10T12:29:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5bbcc7645f4b244ffb5ac6563fbe9d3d42194447 ]

mdacon has roughly the same dependencies as vgacon but expresses them
as a negative list instead of a positive list, with the only practical
difference being PowerPC/CHRP, which uses vga16fb instead of vgacon.

The CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE description advises to only turn it on when vgacon
is also used because MDA/Hercules-only systems should be using vgacon
instead, so just change the list to enforce that directly for simplicity.

The probing was broken from 2002 to 2008, this improves on the fix
that was added then: If vgacon is a loadable module, then mdacon
cannot be built-in now, and the list of systems that support vgacon
is carried over.

Fixes: 0b9cf3aa6b1e ("mdacon messing up default vc's - set default to vc13-16 again")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vgacon: Propagate console boot parameters before calling `vc_resize'

2021-12-08T08:01:13+00:00

commit 3dfac26e2ef29ff2abc2a75aa4cd48fce25a2c4b upstream.

Fix a division by zero in `vgacon_resize' with a backtrace like:

vgacon_resize
vc_do_resize
vgacon_init
do_bind_con_driver
do_unbind_con_driver
fbcon_fb_unbind
do_unregister_framebuffer
do_register_framebuffer
register_framebuffer
__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock
drm_helper_hpd_irq_event
dw_hdmi_irq
irq_thread
kthread

caused by `c->vc_cell_height' not having been initialized.  This has
only started to trigger with commit 860dafa90259 ("vt: Fix character
height handling with VT_RESIZEX"), however the ultimate offender is
commit 50ec42edd978 ("[PATCH] Detaching fbcon: fix vgacon to allow
retaking of the console").

Said commit has added a call to `vc_resize' whenever `vgacon_init' is
called with the `init' argument set to 0, which did not happen before.
And the call is made before a key vgacon boot parameter retrieved in
`vgacon_startup' has been propagated in `vgacon_init' for `vc_resize' to
use to the console structure being worked on.  Previously the parameter
was `c->vc_font.height' and now it is `c->vc_cell_height'.

In this particular scenario the registration of fbcon has failed and vt
resorts to vgacon.  Now fbcon does have initialized `c->vc_font.height'
somehow, unlike `c->vc_cell_height', which is why this code did not
crash before, but either way the boot parameters should have been copied
to the console structure ahead of the call to `vc_resize' rather than
afterwards, so that first the call has a chance to use them and second
they do not change the console structure to something possibly different
from what was used by `vc_resize'.

Move the propagation of the vgacon boot parameters ahead of the call to
`vc_resize' then.  Adjust the comment accordingly.

Fixes: 50ec42edd978 ("[PATCH] Detaching fbcon: fix vgacon to allow retaking of the console")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.18+
Reported-by: Wim Osterholt 
Reported-by: Pavel V. Panteleev 
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2110252317110.58149@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

parisc/sticon: fix reverse colors

2021-11-26T09:47:21+00:00

commit bec05f33ebc1006899c6d3e59a00c58881fe7626 upstream.

sticon_build_attr() checked the reverse argument and flipped
background and foreground color, but returned the non-reverse
value afterwards. Fix this and also add two local variables
for foreground and background color to make the code easier
to read.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX

2021-05-26T10:05:20+00:00

commit 860dafa902595fb5f1d23bbcce1215188c3341e6 upstream.

Restore the original intent of the VT_RESIZEX ioctl's `v_clin' parameter
which is the number of pixel rows per character (cell) rather than the
height of the font used.

For framebuffer devices the two values are always the same, because the
former is inferred from the latter one.  For VGA used as a true text
mode device these two parameters are independent from each other: the
number of pixel rows per character is set in the CRT controller, while
font height is in fact hardwired to 32 pixel rows and fonts of heights
below that value are handled by padding their data with blanks when
loaded to hardware for use by the character generator.  One can change
the setting in the CRT controller and it will update the screen contents
accordingly regardless of the font loaded.

The `v_clin' parameter is used by the `vgacon' driver to set the height
of the character cell and then the cursor position within.  Make the
parameter explicit then, by defining a new `vc_cell_height' struct
member of `vc_data', set it instead of `vc_font.height' from `v_clin' in
the VT_RESIZEX ioctl, and then use it throughout the `vgacon' driver
except where actual font data is accessed which as noted above is
independent from the CRTC setting.

This way the framebuffer console driver is free to ignore the `v_clin'
parameter as irrelevant, as it always should have, avoiding any issues
attempts to give the parameter a meaning there could have caused, such
as one that has led to commit 988d0763361b ("vt_ioctl: make VT_RESIZEX
behave like VT_RESIZE"):

 "syzbot is reporting UAF/OOB read at bit_putcs()/soft_cursor() [1][2],
  for vt_resizex() from ioctl(VT_RESIZEX) allows setting font height
  larger than actual font height calculated by con_font_set() from
  ioctl(PIO_FONT). Since fbcon_set_font() from con_font_set() allocates
  minimal amount of memory based on actual font height calculated by
  con_font_set(), use of vt_resizex() can cause UAF/OOB read for font
  data."

The problem first appeared around Linux 2.5.66 which predates our repo
history, but the origin could be identified with the old MIPS/Linux repo
also at: 
as commit 9736a3546de7 ("Merge with Linux 2.5.66."), where VT_RESIZEX
code in `vt_ioctl' was updated as follows:

 		if (clin)
-			video_font_height = clin;
+			vc->vc_font.height = clin;

making the parameter apply to framebuffer devices as well, perhaps due
to the use of "font" in the name of the original `video_font_height'
variable.  Use "cell" in the new struct member then to avoid ambiguity.

References:

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=32577e96d88447ded2d3b76d71254fb855245837
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6b8355d27b2b94fb5cedf4655e3a59162d9e48e3

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki 
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX

2021-05-26T10:05:20+00:00

commit d4d0ad57b3865795c4cde2fb5094c594c2e8f469 upstream.

Fix an issue with VGA console font size changes made after the initial
video text mode has been changed with a user tool like `svgatextmode'
calling the VT_RESIZEX ioctl.  As it stands in that case the original
screen geometry continues being used to validate further VT resizing.

Consequently when the video adapter is firstly reprogrammed from the
original say 80x25 text mode using a 9x16 character cell (720x400 pixel
resolution) to say 80x37 text mode and the same character cell (720x592
pixel resolution), and secondly the CRTC character cell updated to 9x8
(by loading a suitable font with the KD_FONT_OP_SET request of the
KDFONTOP ioctl), the VT geometry does not get further updated from 80x37
and only upper half of the screen is used for the VT, with the lower
half showing rubbish corresponding to whatever happens to be there in
the video memory that maps to that part of the screen.  Of course the
proportions change according to text mode geometries and font sizes
chosen.

Address the problem then, by updating the text mode geometry defaults
rather than checking against them whenever the VT is resized via a user
ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki 
Fixes: e400b6ec4ede ("vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.24+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h

2020-10-14T08:32:56+00:00

commit bb0890b4cd7f8203e3aa99c6d0f062d6acdaad27 upstream.

drivers/video/console/newport_con.c is borrowing FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros
from drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h. To keep things simple, move all
definitions into .

Since newport_con now uses four extra words, initialize the fourth word in
newport_set_font() properly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/7fb8bc9b0abc676ada6b7ac0e0bd443499357267.1600953813.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: remove software scrollback support

2020-09-17T11:47:54+00:00

commit 973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 upstream.

Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit
ebfdfeeae8c0 ("vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling"),
but that then made people look more closely at some of this code, and
there were more problems on the vgacon side, but also the fbcon software
scrollback.

We don't really have anybody who maintains this code - probably because
nobody actually _uses_ it any more.  Sure, people still use both VGA and
the framebuffer consoles, but they are no longer the main user
interfaces to the kernel, and haven't been for decades, so these kinds
of extra features end up bitrotting and not really being used.

So rather than try to maintain a likely unused set of code, I'll just
aggressively remove it, and see if anybody even notices.  Maybe there
are people who haven't jumped on the whole GUI badnwagon yet, and think
it's just a fad.  And maybe those people use the scrollback code.

If that turns out to be the case, we can resurrect this again, once
we've found the sucker^Wmaintainer for it who actually uses it.

Reported-by: NopNop Nop 
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: 张云海 
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

console: newport_con: fix an issue about leak related system resources

2020-08-19T06:16:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit fd4b8243877250c05bb24af7fea5567110c9720b ]

A call of the function do_take_over_console() can fail here.
The corresponding system resources were not released then.
Thus add a call of iounmap() and release_mem_region()
together with the check of a failure predicate. and also
add release_mem_region() on device removal.

Fixes: e86bb8acc0fdc ("[PATCH] VT binding: Make newport_con support binding")
Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Signed-off-by: Dejin Zheng 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200423164251.3349-1-zhengdejin5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin