Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2020-09-05

[PATCH v2 (resend)] video: fbdev: fix OOB read in vga_8planes_imageblit()

From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: 2020-09-01 07:32:22
Also in: dri-devel
Subsystem: framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers: Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds

syzbot is reporting OOB read at vga_8planes_imageblit() [1], for
"cdat[y] >> 4" can become a negative value due to "const char *cdat".

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id
7a0da1557dcd1989e00cb3692b26d4173b4132

Reported-by: syzbot <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
index a20eeb8308ff..578d3541e3d6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ static void vga_8planes_imageblit(struct fb_info *info, const struct fb_image *i
         char oldop = setop(0);
         char oldsr = setsr(0);
         char oldmask = selectmask();
-        const char *cdat = image->data;
+	const unsigned char *cdat = image->data;
 	u32 dx = image->dx;
         char __iomem *where;
         int y;
-- 
2.18.4
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