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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	"Javier Martinez Canillas" <javierm@redhat.com>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	shlomo@fastmail.com, "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>,
	"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
	"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Nathan Chancellor" <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	"Qiujun Huang" <hqjagain@gmail.com>,
	"Peter Rosin" <peda@axentia.se>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, "Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	"Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	"Shigeru Yoshida" <syoshida@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.2 020/139] fbmem: Reject FB_ACTIVATE_KD_TEXT from userspace
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230418120314.413344564@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230418120313.725598495@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

commit 6fd33a3333c7916689b8f051a185defe4dd515b0 upstream.

This is an oversight from dc5bdb68b5b3 ("drm/fb-helper: Fix vt
restore") - I failed to realize that nasty userspace could set this.

It's not pretty to mix up kernel-internal and userspace uapi flags
like this, but since the entire fb_var_screeninfo structure is uapi
we'd need to either add a new parameter to the ->fb_set_par callback
and fb_set_par() function, which has a _lot_ of users. Or some other
fairly ugly side-channel int fb_info. Neither is a pretty prospect.

Instead just correct the issue at hand by filtering out this
kernel-internal flag in the ioctl handling code.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Fixes: dc5bdb68b5b3 ("drm/fb-helper: Fix vt restore")
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: shlomo@fastmail.com
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.7+
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230404193934.472457-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -1117,6 +1117,8 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *
 	case FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO:
 		if (copy_from_user(&var, argp, sizeof(var)))
 			return -EFAULT;
+		/* only for kernel-internal use */
+		var.activate &= ~FB_ACTIVATE_KD_TEXT;
 		console_lock();
 		lock_fb_info(info);
 		ret = fbcon_modechange_possible(info, &var);



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