From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, co+b0df61d49532b2ee@bugs.sh,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: vfb: Validate framebuffer geometry and memory size
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:06:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f8371e4-ea8c-45d4-8a42-e1a616915b61@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026154604.579823-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
On 10/26/26 16:46, Weiming Shi wrote:
> FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO can supply a virtual width large enough to
> overflow get_line_length()'s int multiplication and bypass the
> video-memory limit, allowing fbcon to write past the framebuffer. The
> offset additions can also wrap, while an excessive videomemorysize
> module parameter can be truncated when PAGE_ALIGN() is assigned to
> unsigned int.
>
> Limit virtual geometry and offsets to 8192 x 8192 and cap video
> memory at 512 MiB, keeping the stride, framebuffer-size, and generic
> fbdev drawing calculations within their destination types.
>
> KASAN reports:
>
> BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in sys_fillrect
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c:24
> Write of size 8 at addr ffa0000001671000 by task poc/198
> sys_fillrect
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c:24
> bit_clear_margins
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c:247
> fbcon_clear_margins.constprop.0
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:1410
> fbcon_switch
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2261
> redraw_screen
> drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:994
> fbcon_modechanged
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2693
> fbcon_update_vcs
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2732
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Reported-by: <co+b0df61d49532b2ee@bugs.sh>
> Suggested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Limit virtual geometry and offsets to 8192 x 8192. This retains 8K mode
> support while bounding all generic fbdev drawing calculations.
> - Cap videomemorysize at 512 MiB.
> - Keep the existing arithmetic types now that all inputs are bounded.
>
> drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c
> index de137b2bd..de40ba8c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
> */
>
> #define VIDEOMEMSIZE (1*1024*1024) /* 1 MB */
> +#define MAX_VIDEOMEMSIZE (512 * 1024 * 1024)
> +#define MAX_XRES 8192
> +#define MAX_YRES 8192
>
> static void *videomemory;
> static u_long videomemorysize = VIDEOMEMSIZE;
> @@ -159,6 +162,14 @@ static int vfb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,
> else
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + if (var->xres_virtual > MAX_XRES ||
> + var->yres_virtual > MAX_YRES)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + if (var->xoffset > MAX_XRES - var->xres ||
> + var->yoffset > MAX_YRES - var->yres)
> + return -EINVAL;
Instead of returning EINVAL, I wonder if we could simply
cap the resolutions at MAX_XRES/MAX_YRES?
> +
> if (var->xres_virtual < var->xoffset + var->xres)
> var->xres_virtual = var->xoffset + var->xres;
> if (var->yres_virtual < var->yoffset + var->yres)
> @@ -434,9 +445,13 @@ static int __init vfb_setup(char *options)
> static int vfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> {
> struct fb_info *info;
> - unsigned int size = PAGE_ALIGN(videomemorysize);
> + unsigned int size;
> int retval = -ENOMEM;
>
and here maybe
videomemorysize = min(videomemorysize, MAX_VIDEOMEMSIZE);
that way the driver loads even if the provided too big value?
Helge
> + if (videomemorysize > MAX_VIDEOMEMSIZE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + size = PAGE_ALIGN(videomemorysize);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-26 16:06 UTC|newest]
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2026-10-26 15:46 Weiming Shi
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