From: "Jiacheng Xu" <stitch@zju.edu.cn>
To: "Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] fbcon rotate causes vmalloc out-of-bounds write after vc_resize failure
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:01:35 +0800 (GMT+08:00) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3394ce6f.1a32a.1a038275127.Coremail.stitch@zju.edu.cn> (raw)
Execution environment:
- Kernel: Linux commit 0f23d56f
- Architecture: x86_64
- QEMU: KVM-enabled qemu-system-x86_64
- Guest image: Debian Bullseye
- KASAN and fault injection enabled
The kernel was started with:
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-m 2G \
-smp 2 \
-kernel ./bzImage \
-append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda earlyprintk=serial net.ifnames=0" \
-drive file=./bullseye.img,format=raw \
-net user,host=10.0.2.10,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10021-:22 \
-net nic,model=e1000 \
-enable-kvm \
-nographic \
-pidfile vm.pid \
2>&1 | tee vm.log
Trigger condition:
1. Write to `/sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate` to initialize the attribute.
2. Set the current thread's fault-injection counter to 13 through
`/proc/thread-self/fail-nth`.
3. Request rotation value 1 through the same `rotate` attribute.
The injected failure occurs during memory allocation in vc_do_resize(). The subsequent redraw path reaches sys_imageblit() and reports a KASAN vmalloc out-of-bounds write.
Potential root cause:
fbcon_modechanged() switches to the new rotation and blitting operations before resizing the virtual console. When vc_resize() fails, its
return value is ignored and update_screen() still runs.
As a result, the VT geometry and screen buffer remain in the old state while the framebuffer console uses the new rotation state.
sys_imageblit() then calculates an invalid framebuffer address and performs an out-of-bounds write.
Best,
Jiacheng
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