[PATCH 0/1] crash in tty layer when specifying invalid console=ttyX

Sven Schnelle
2022-12-07T07:53:14Z

Hi,

we had a user specifying 'console=tty3270' assuming that this will use the
tty3270 driver from s390 as console device. However, it will try to open
tty number 3270 as tty which is not what the user expected. That alone
isn't really a problem, but the kernel crashes while dereferencing invalid
memory with this option.

I tested this with qemu on x86, and it crashes in the same way. I never
worked in the tty layer, but it looks to me like there's some out-of-bound
checking missing in tty_driver_lookup_tty(). If this fix is wrong or
there's a better place to do that, let me know.

Sven Schnelle (1):
tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty()

drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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