From: Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>
To: deller@gmx.de, tzimmermann@suse.de, simona@ffwll.ch
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yaoyiqi3@huawei.com,
Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] fbcon: Rebuild rotated font buffer on font change
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:45:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016034533.445862-3-yaoyiqi3@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016034533.445862-1-yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
From: Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>
From: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
fbcon_rotate_font() caches a rotated copy of the console font in
par->rotated.buf. The buffer is sized from the font's width, height
and charcount, and is rebuilt in fbcon_init(), fbcon_switch() and
fbcon_modechanged(), but not in fbcon_do_set_font().
When the console font is changed through KDFONTOP/KD_FONT_OP_SET, the
new font data and geometry are installed and vc_resize() is called.
The redraw that follows reaches the rotated bitops while the buffer
still holds the old font: the rotated putcs/cursor ops index
par->rotated.buf with the new cell size and character codes, so a
stale, too-small buffer is read out of bounds.
KASAN reports, for example:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in soft_cursor
Read of size 64 at addr ...
memcpy
soft_cursor
cw_cursor
fbcon_cursor
hide_cursor
redraw_screen
vc_do_resize
fbcon_do_set_font
fbcon_set_font
con_font_op
vt_ioctl
Rebuild the buffer for the visible console right after the new font
geometry has been installed and before any redraw. Select the
console's blitting state with set_blitting_type() first, as
fbcon_init(), fbcon_switch() and fbcon_modechanged() do before their
rotate_font() calls: fbcon_rotate_font() reads the source font
through par->p, which may otherwise still refer to another console of
this framebuffer. Background consoles keep their rebuild at
fbcon_switch() time, as the buffer is shared per framebuffer and must
not be rebuilt for a console that is not being displayed.
If vc_resize() fails, err_out restores the previous font. The rotated
buffer that was rebuilt for the new font earlier in the function
cannot be restored with it: font_data_rotate() has already reused or
freed the buffer that belonged to the old font. Rebuild the buffer
again after the restore. Otherwise the console keeps rendering with
the old geometry against a buffer that was laid out for the rejected
font, and par->rotated.fontdata keeps referencing the font data whose
last reference the error path drops. A failing rebuild leaves
par->rotated.buf NULL, so the rotated ops skip drawing instead of
reading a mismatched buffer; the next patch retries the allocation on
the following call.
Unlike the other callers, this one does not fall back to unrotated
rendering on failure. The "par->rotate = FB_ROTATE_UR;
set_blitting_type(vc, info);" fallback they use does not actually
switch to unrotated rendering: set_blitting_type() calls
fbcon_set_rotation(), which immediately re-derives par->rotate from
par->p->con_rotate. Replicating that pattern here would not change
the outcome; repairing the fallback is left to separate work.
Fixes: 6cc50e1c5b57 ("[PATCH] fbcon: Console Rotation - Add support to rotate font bitmap")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebuild the buffer again in the error path of fbcon_do_set_font().
Without this, a failed vc_resize() left the rotated cache describing
the rejected font while the console rendered with the restored one,
and par->rotated.fontdata referenced freed font data (found by the
Sashiko review).
- Select the console's blitting state with set_blitting_type() before
rebuilding, like the other rotate_font() callers, instead of writing
par->p directly.
- Reworded the note about the unrotated-rendering fallback, which is
now left to separate work.
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index 01715873ea49..1a2fe9fc1dc2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -2432,6 +2432,17 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
else if (!vc->vc_hi_font_mask && charcount == 512)
set_vc_hi_font(vc, true);
+ /*
+ * Select the console's blitting state and update par->rotated to
+ * match the new font, so that the rendering below does not use a
+ * cache that was built for the old font.
+ */
+ if (con_is_visible(vc)) {
+ set_blitting_type(vc, info);
+ if (par->bitops->rotate_font)
+ par->bitops->rotate_font(info, vc);
+ }
+
if (resize) {
int cols, rows;
@@ -2466,6 +2477,14 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
else if (!old_hi_font_mask && vc->vc_hi_font_mask)
set_vc_hi_font(vc, false);
+ /*
+ * The rotated font buffer was rebuilt for the new font before
+ * vc_resize() was attempted. Call rotate_font() again to
+ * overwrite par->rotated with the restored font's state.
+ */
+ if (con_is_visible(vc) && par->bitops->rotate_font)
+ par->bitops->rotate_font(info, vc);
+
font_data_put(data);
return ret;
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-16 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 3:45 [PATCH v2 0/3] fbcon: fix rotated font buffer handling on font change Yao Yiqi
2026-10-16 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] fbcon: Include font geometry in the rotated font cache Yao Yiqi
2026-10-16 3:45 ` Yao Yiqi [this message]
2026-10-16 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fbcon: Retry rotated font allocation after failure Yao Yiqi
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