From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] fbcon: Rebuild rotated font buffer on font change
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:59:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111185908.3923312-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107055247-failed-6.1-e4b6b865d45d@kernel.org>
From: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
[ Upstream commit e4b6b865d45d8dafb6c6f28c8a993a5b4431d25a ]
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 font is changed through KDFONTOP, the new geometry is
installed and vc_resize() redraws before the buffer is rebuilt. The
rotated putcs/cursor ops then index the old buffer with the new cell
size; KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read in soft_cursor().
Rebuild the buffer for the visible console before the redraw, as the
other callers do: select the console's blitting state with
set_blitting_type() (which also uploads the new font's map on
tile-blitting hardware), then rebuild. Background consoles keep
their rebuild at fbcon_switch() time, as the buffer is shared per
framebuffer and must not be updated for a console that is not being
displayed.
To ensure a correct rollback when the rebuild or the following
vc_resize() fails, save the rotated font state, clear it before
rebuilding, and restore it in the error path of
fbcon_do_set_font().
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>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
[ sashal: adapted rotated-font handling to use separate fbcon_par cache fields and the direct rotate_font callback ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index d6a728e0690d2..2b891dd6330f9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -2415,6 +2415,12 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
int resize, ret, old_userfont, old_width, old_height, old_charcount;
u8 *old_data = vc->vc_font.data;
unsigned short old_hi_font_mask = vc->vc_hi_font_mask;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION
+ u8 *saved_fontdata = NULL, *saved_fontbuffer = NULL;
+ u32 saved_fd_size = 0;
+ int saved_cur_rotate = 0;
+ bool rotated_saved = false;
+#endif
resize = (w != vc->vc_font.width) || (h != vc->vc_font.height);
vc->vc_font.data = (void *)(p->fontdata = data);
@@ -2434,6 +2440,33 @@ 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 the rotated font buffer
+ * to match the new font, so that the rendering below does not use a
+ * cache that was built for the old font. Clear the cached state so
+ * the rebuild allocates a fresh buffer; the old state is kept until
+ * the font change can no longer fail.
+ */
+ if (con_is_visible(vc)) {
+ set_blitting_type(vc, info);
+ if (par->rotate_font) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION
+ saved_fontdata = par->fontdata;
+ saved_fontbuffer = par->fontbuffer;
+ saved_fd_size = par->fd_size;
+ saved_cur_rotate = par->cur_rotate;
+ par->fontdata = NULL;
+ par->fontbuffer = NULL;
+ par->fd_size = 0;
+ par->cur_rotate = 0;
+ rotated_saved = true;
+#endif
+ ret = par->rotate_font(info, vc);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_out;
+ }
+ }
+
if (resize) {
int cols, rows;
@@ -2450,11 +2483,28 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h, int charcount,
update_screen(vc);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION
+ if (rotated_saved)
+ kfree(saved_fontbuffer);
+#endif
if (old_userfont && (--REFCOUNT(old_data) == 0))
kfree(old_data - FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int));
return 0;
err_out:
+#ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION
+ /*
+ * Drop the buffer built for the new font and restore the saved
+ * state.
+ */
+ if (rotated_saved) {
+ kfree(par->fontbuffer);
+ par->fontdata = saved_fontdata;
+ par->fontbuffer = saved_fontbuffer;
+ par->fd_size = saved_fd_size;
+ par->cur_rotate = saved_cur_rotate;
+ }
+#endif
p->fontdata = old_data;
vc->vc_font.data = old_data;
@@ -2474,6 +2524,13 @@ 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);
+ /*
+ * Re-select the blitting type, which re-uploads the font map on
+ * tile-blitting hardware.
+ */
+ if (con_is_visible(vc))
+ set_blitting_type(vc, info);
+
return ret;
}
--
2.53.0
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