On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:15 AM Tetsuo Handa
[off-list ref] wrote:

syzbot is reporting page fault at vga16fb_fillrect() [1], for
vga16fb_check_var() is failing to detect multiplication overflow.

  if (vxres * vyres > maxmem) {
    vyres = maxmem / vxres;
    if (vyres < yres)
      return -ENOMEM;
  }

Since no module would accept too huge resolutions where multiplication
overflow happens, let's reject in the common path.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=04168c8063cfdde1db5e [1]
Reported-by: syzbot <redacted>
Debugged-by: Randy Dunlap [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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