This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tty-limit-terminal-size-to-4m-chars.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.
From 32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:18:28 +0200
Subject: tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars
From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
commit 32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f upstream.
Size of kmalloc() in vc_do_resize() is controlled by user.
Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console.
Put a reasonable upper bound on terminal size to prevent WARNINGs.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <redacted>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
Cc: Peter Hurley <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -872,6 +872,8 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struc
if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
return 0;
+ if (new_screen_size > (4 << 20))
+ return -EINVAL;
newscreen = kmalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER);
if (!newscreen)
return -ENOMEM;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dvyukov@google.com are
queue-4.4/tty-limit-terminal-size-to-4m-chars.patch
queue-4.4/vt-clear-selection-before-resizing.patch