Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 7 authors, 2021-09-08

Re: [syzbot] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in vga16fb_fillrect

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2021-08-30 14:30:54
Also in: dri-devel, lkml

Hi Tetsuo,

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 4:26 PM Tetsuo Handa
[off-list ref] wrote:
On 2021/08/30 22:47, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:37:31PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
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On 2021/08/30 22:00, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
index e2757ff1c23d..e483a3f5fd47 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static int vga16fb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,

        if (yres > vyres)
                vyres = yres;
-       if (vxres * vyres > maxmem) {
+       if ((u64) vxres * vyres > (u64) maxmem) {
Mindlessly changing the sizes is not the solution.
Please use e.g. the array_size() helper from <linux/overflow.h>
instead.
On a 64bit system the array_size() macro is going to do the exact same
casts?  But I do think this code would be easier to understand if the
integer overflow check were pull out separately and done first:

    if (array_size(vxres, vyres) >= UINT_MAX)
            return -EINVAL;
This is wrong. array_size() returns ULONG_MAX on 64bits upon overflow and
returns UINT_MAX on 32bits upon overflow. However, UINT_MAX is a valid
value without overflow (e.g. vxres == UINT_MAX / 15 && vyres == 15).
Huh...  I just assumed we didn't allow resolutions that high.
Of course, we don't allow resolutions that high. ;-)

Since I don't know possible max resolutions, I chose UINT_MAX + 1 as a common
limit for returning -EINVAL. Unless overflow happens, vga16fb_check_var() will
return -ENOMEM on such high resolutions.
The highest possible value of maxmem inside vga16fb_check_var()
is 65536.

So I believe

    if (array_size(vxres, vyres) > maxmem)

should work fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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