linux.git/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c, branch v5.10

vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY

2020-11-08T18:35:06+00:00

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
>  for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye 
Reported-by: Minh Yuan 
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3651
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Peilin Ye 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge 5.9-rc3 into tty-next

2020-08-31T05:19:25+00:00

We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'tty-5.9-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2020-08-26T17:58:20+00:00

Pull tty/serial fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are a few small TTY/Serial/vt fixes for 5.9-rc3

  Included in here are:
   - qcom serial fixes
   - vt ioctl and core bugfixes
   - pl011 serial driver fixes
   - 8250 serial driver fixes
   - other misc serial driver fixes

  and for good measure:
   - fbcon fix for syzbot found problem.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-5.9-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  tty: serial: imx: add dependence and build for earlycon
  serial: samsung: Removes the IRQ not found warning
  serial: 8250: change lock order in serial8250_do_startup()
  serial: stm32: avoid kernel warning on absence of optional IRQ
  serial: pl011: Fix oops on -EPROBE_DEFER
  serial: pl011: Don't leak amba_ports entry on driver register error
  serial: 8250_exar: Fix number of ports for Commtech PCIe cards
  tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Drop __init from qcom_geni_console_setup
  serial: qcom_geni_serial: Fix recent kdb hang
  vt_ioctl: change VT_RESIZEX ioctl to check for error return from vc_resize()
  fbcon: prevent user font height or width change from causing potential out-of-bounds access
  vt: defer kfree() of vc_screenbuf in vc_do_resize()

treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

tty: vt, fix kernel-doc

2020-08-18T11:51:18+00:00

As in the previous patches, fix kernel-doc in vt.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085655.12071-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vc: propagate "viewed as bool" from screenpos up

2020-08-18T11:45:20+00:00

viewed is used as a flag, i.e. bool. So treat is as such in most of the
places. vcs_vc is handled in the next patch.

Note: the last parameter of invert_screen was misnamed in the
declaration since 1.1.92.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085706.12163-3-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: declare xy for get/putconsxy properly

2020-08-18T11:45:20+00:00

That is:
1) call the parameter 'xy' to denote what it really is, not generic 'p'
2) tell the compiler and users that we expect an array:
   * with at least 2 chars (static 2)
   * which we don't modify in putconsxy (const)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085706.12163-2-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: make vc_data pointers const in selection.h

2020-08-18T11:45:20+00:00

There are many functions declared in selection.h which only read from
struct vc_data passed as a parameter. Make all those uses const to hint
the compiler a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085706.12163-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: defer kfree() of vc_screenbuf in vc_do_resize()

2020-08-18T11:18:17+00:00

syzbot is reporting UAF bug in set_origin() from vc_do_resize() [1], for
vc_do_resize() calls kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf) before calling set_origin().

Unfortunately, in set_origin(), vc->vc_sw->con_set_origin() might access
vc->vc_pos when scroll is involved in order to manipulate cursor, but
vc->vc_pos refers already released vc->vc_screenbuf until vc->vc_pos gets
updated based on the result of vc->vc_sw->con_set_origin().

Preserving old buffer and tolerating outdated vc members until set_origin()
completes would be easier than preventing vc->vc_sw->con_set_origin() from
accessing outdated vc members.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6649da2081e2ebdc65c0642c214b27fe91099db3

Reported-by: syzbot 
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: stable 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596034621-4714-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge 5.8-rc7 into tty-next

2020-07-27T10:40:56+00:00

we need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman