fbcon: Prevent that screen size is smaller than font size

We need to prevent that users configure a screen size which is smaller than the
currently selected font size. Otherwise rendering chars on the screen will
access memory outside the graphics memory region.

This patch adds a new function fbcon_modechange_possible() which
implements this check and which later may be extended with other checks
if necessary.  The new function is called from the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO
ioctl handler in fbmem.c, which will return -EINVAL if userspace asked
for a too small screen size.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
index a33532564393..5632870a9aeb 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -2736,6 +2736,34 @@ void fbcon_update_vcs(struct fb_info *info, bool all)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fbcon_update_vcs);
 
+/* let fbcon check if it supports a new screen resolution */
+int fbcon_modechange_possible(struct fb_info *info, struct fb_var_screeninfo *var)
+{
+	struct fbcon_ops *ops = info->fbcon_par;
+	struct vc_data *vc;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED();
+
+	if (!ops)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* prevent setting a screen size which is smaller than font size */
+	for (i = first_fb_vc; i <= last_fb_vc; i++) {
+		vc = vc_cons[i].d;
+		if (!vc || vc->vc_mode != KD_TEXT ||
+			   registered_fb[con2fb_map[i]] != info)
+			continue;
+
+		if (vc->vc_font.width  > FBCON_SWAP(var->rotate, var->xres, var->yres) ||
+		    vc->vc_font.height > FBCON_SWAP(var->rotate, var->yres, var->xres))
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fbcon_modechange_possible);
+
 int fbcon_mode_deleted(struct fb_info *info,
 		       struct fb_videomode *mode)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index ee63b5b47290..7dc6848a96bb 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -1107,7 +1107,9 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
 			return -EFAULT;
 		console_lock();
 		lock_fb_info(info);
-		ret = fb_set_var(info, &var);
+		ret = fbcon_modechange_possible(info, &var);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = fb_set_var(info, &var);
 		if (!ret)
 			fbcon_update_vcs(info, var.activate & FB_ACTIVATE_ALL);
 		unlock_fb_info(info);