From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] tty/vt: use guard()s
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 13:38:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261004173840.989210-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261004173840.989210-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit e730c373b6ff16a177e132859bf6ea4dbb15105f ]
Having all the new guards, use them in the vt code. This improves
readability, makes error handling easier, and marks locked portions of
code explicit.
A local free_page_ptr __free guard is introduced for
__get_free_page/free_page (with proper casts). This could be made public
in include/. But I am not sure if there are more possible users, so
keeping completely private here.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814072456.182853-16-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use scope-based console locking and buffer cleanup in vcs_write() so
error paths can return directly while releasing both resources.
Limit the conversion to the function needed by the follow-up console
pointer reload fix. Omit the other guard conversions, including the
selection changes whose context assumes bracketed-paste support.
Allocate the page-sized copy buffer with kmalloc() and reuse the existing
kfree cleanup guard instead of introducing a new cleanup helper. Declare
the buffer before the console guard so the console is unlocked before
the buffer is freed, preserving the original cleanup order.
[ sashal: REDUCED BACKPORT of e730c373b6ff: carries 29/414 upstream
changed lines; not carried:
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:con_set_trans_old(),
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:con_get_trans_old(),
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:con_set_trans_new(),
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:con_get_trans_new(),
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c:con_clear_unimap(),
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c:sel_loadlut(),
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c:set_selection_kernel(),
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c:paste_selection(), +28 more ]
Stable-dep-of: 226bd5603371 ("vc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write() to avoid UAF")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 29 +++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
index 2536635153552..a59d2006b1a99 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
@@ -591,7 +591,6 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
struct vc_data *vc;
- char *con_buf;
u16 *org0, *org;
unsigned int written;
int size;
@@ -602,7 +601,7 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
if (use_unicode(inode))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- con_buf = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ char *con_buf __free(kfree) = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!con_buf)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -611,22 +610,18 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
/* Select the proper current console and verify
* sanity of the situation under the console lock.
*/
- console_lock();
+ guard(console_lock)();
attr = use_attributes(inode);
- ret = -ENXIO;
vc = vcs_vc(inode, &viewed);
if (!vc)
- goto unlock_out;
+ return -ENXIO;
size = vcs_size(vc, attr, false);
- if (size < 0) {
- ret = size;
- goto unlock_out;
- }
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (size < 0)
+ return size;
if (pos < 0 || pos > size)
- goto unlock_out;
+ return -EINVAL;
if (count > size - pos)
count = size - pos;
written = 0;
@@ -651,8 +646,7 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
*/
if (written)
break;
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto unlock_out;
+ return -EFAULT;
}
}
@@ -664,15 +658,13 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
if (!vc) {
if (written)
break;
- ret = -ENXIO;
- goto unlock_out;
+ return -ENXIO;
}
size = vcs_size(vc, attr, false);
if (size < 0) {
if (written)
break;
- ret = size;
- goto unlock_out;
+ return size;
}
if (pos >= size)
break;
@@ -702,9 +694,6 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
if (written && vc)
vcs_scr_updated(vc);
-unlock_out:
- console_unlock();
- free_page((unsigned long) con_buf);
return ret;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-04 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-04 7:36 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] vc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-10-04 17:38 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/3] console: introduce console_lock guard()s Sasha Levin
2026-10-04 17:38 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-10-04 17:38 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 3/3] vc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write() to avoid UAF Sasha Levin
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