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vconsole-setup: updates & fixes #3651

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@msoltyspl msoltyspl commented Jul 3, 2016

This patch updates vconsole helper to:

  • correctly handle fonts of heights different than 16
  • avoid issues with setfont's -m option

See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/36874 for more details about both of those. Example of config where vconsole will cause issues:

KEYMAP=pl
FONT=latarcyrheb-sun32
FONT_MAP=8859-2

It also adds:

  • new vc_max tunable, so user can set how many consoles should be adjusted (defaults to 12 if not specified explicitly)
  • iutf8 flag is now set/reset as necessary

The code changed a bit, the revised basic code flow is now:

  • determine whether we're setting one console or range
  • open tty0 or supplied device, do sanity checks
  • parse config and command line (if applicable)
  • sanitize vc_max
  • do per-console tests (allocated, openable, kbd mode) and if they all pass -
    per-console changes (font, utf8, iutf8, kbd mode)
  • if at least one console was modified, wait for all setfont children then do global changes: sysfs utf8 flag, loadkeys

This patch updates vconsole helper to:

- correctly handle fonts of heights different than 16
- avoid issues with setfont's -m option

And adds:

- new vc_max tunable, so user can set how many consoles should be adjusted
- iutf8 flag is now set/reset as necessary

Short revised code flow overview:

- determine whether we're setting one console or range
- open tty0 or supplied device, do sanity checks
- parse config and command line (if applicable)
- sanitize vc_max
- do per-console tests (allocated, openable, kbd mode) and if they all pass -
  per-console changes (font, utf8, iutf8, kbd mode)
- if at least one console was modified, do global changes: sysfs utf8 flag,
  loadkeys
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any chance you can split this out in multiple individual patches? this is really hard to review otherwise.

We generally follow the rule that we return negative errno-style errors in our functions (see CODING_STYLE). Your code appears to change that for most functions, and I can't say I really like that...

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your code removes the logic for KD_FONT_OP_COPY and replaces it with much slower invocations of setfont for each VC, if I got this right. What's the rationale for that? setfont is excessively slow, and we really shouldn't invoke it 64 times... if KD_FONT_OP_COPY is broken in the kernel, why not fix that instead?

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msoltyspl commented Jul 9, 2016

any chance you can split this out in multiple individual patches? this is really hard to review otherwise.

Yes, can do that. The single patch was effect that the whole thing was basically one logical change, but yea I can do that.

We generally follow the rule that we return negative errno-style errors in our functions (see CODING_STYLE). Your code appears to change that for most functions, and I can't say I really like that...

I only followed what vconsole did in functions (before my patch) such as keyboard_load_and_wait(), font_load_and_wait() and how it decided between success/failure - including the functions I added (that needed to return something).

I can change that to -errno (I prefer that myself, I don't like concept of 'bool' in C much either ...)

your code removes the logic for KD_FONT_OP_COPY and replaces it with much slower invocations of setfont for each VC, if I got this right. What's the rationale for that? setfont is excessively slow, and we really shouldn't invoke it 64 times...

By default 12 times, with tunable added in vconsole.conf to set it explicitly by the user (expecting one would lower it depending on needs, not go beyond 12 which can't even be used conveniently. The vconsole originally used hardcoded 15 value). setfonts are of course called in parallel, and then we call in loop wait_for_terminate_and_warn() to wait for all of them. So the timewise cost is not much different from calling it once.

Now why I decided for it.

KD_FONT_OP_COPY seems fine itself, but to work correctly it needs font height. Original vconsole instead of giving it the height gave it console index (one of bugs that needs to be fixed one or the other way) instead of height - which conincidentally was 0 and worked fine for copying from tty1 (which is bacially the only thing vconsole does in practice) as long as the font height was the same. I tried other ioctls but never really got anything besides 0 (perhaps it needs more testing/tries).

(it seems this ioctl simply breaks or I'm misusing it somehow), anyway:

So instead of following this route - considering vconsole's work is a one-shot tiny fraction of the rest of the boot process either way - what if we spawned setfonts per console (avoiding ioctl() games), in parallel, with user knob available to set the amount of terminals to change (defaulting to 12 as opposed pre-patch 15). That was my final reasoning/approach.

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For the record, I did some tests and while:

KD_FONT_OP_COPY seems hopeless.

KD_FONT_OP_GET and KD_FONT_OP_SET work fine - so we can copy and set the font per console w/o calling extra setfonts.

Would that approach be ok ?

if (r < 0) {
r = -errno;
log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to %s UTF-8 kbdmode: %m", utf8 ? "enable" : "disable");
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You can just do

    return log_warning_errno(errno, "Failed"...);

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keszybz commented Jul 15, 2016

Would that approach be ok ?

Yes. Can you update the patch?

I think that your changes look nice in general. I made some more comments on the style. It's fine to do this in one patch, you are changing a lot of the code so I don't think it's worth the trouble to split it into multiple patches, it won't be much clearer anyway.

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Allright, I'll update the patch following your remarks. I'll also split it into separate pieces, so diffs are easy (and logical) on eyes.

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torvalds pushed a commit to torvalds/linux that referenced this pull request Nov 8, 2020
It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fengguang pushed a commit to 0day-ci/linux that referenced this pull request Nov 9, 2020
It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
woodsts pushed a commit to woodsts/linux-stable that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
SGCMarkus pushed a commit to SGCMarkus/android_kernel_lge_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
miraclestars pushed a commit to miraclestars/android_kernel_samsung_sm8250 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Claymore1297 pushed a commit to Claymore1297/kernel_oneplus_sdm845 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
bananafunction pushed a commit to bananafunction/android_kernel_sony_msm8998 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
corsicanu pushed a commit to corsicanu/android_kernel_samsung_universal7904 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
K9100ii pushed a commit to K9100ii/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2020
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Huawei-Dev pushed a commit to Huawei-Dev/android_kernel_huawei_hi3660 that referenced this pull request May 20, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Huawei-Dev pushed a commit to Huawei-Dev/android_kernel_huawei_hi3660 that referenced this pull request May 20, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request May 24, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 27, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request May 27, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
steadfasterX pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request May 27, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 1, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 1, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 1, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 2, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rsuntk pushed a commit to rsuntk/android_kernel_samsung_tunf that referenced this pull request Jun 13, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 17, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request Jun 19, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 20, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870 that referenced this pull request Jun 20, 2024
commit 3c4e0dff2095c579b142d5a0693257f1c58b4804 upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Iff0b39445ed40ba304c240b4b9ea1db03c1aa849
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sfX-bot pushed a commit to AXP-OS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8150 that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
commit 3c4e0df upstream.

It's buggy:

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:30:08PM +0800, Minh Yuan wrote:
> We recently discovered a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the latest
> kernel ( v5.10-rc2 for now ).  The root cause of this vulnerability is that
> "fbcon_do_set_font" did not handle "vc->vc_font.data" and
> "vc->vc_font.height" correctly, and the patch
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/223> for VT_RESIZEX can't handle this
> issue.
>
> Specifically, we use KD_FONT_OP_SET to set a small font.data for tty6, and
> use  KD_FONT_OP_SET again to set a large font.height for tty1. After that,
> we use KD_FONT_OP_COPY to assign tty6's vc_font.data to tty1's vc_font.data
> in "fbcon_do_set_font", while tty1 retains the original larger
> height. Obviously, this will cause an out-of-bounds read, because we can
> access a smaller vc_font.data with a larger vc_font.height.

Further there was only one user ever.
- Android's loadfont, busybox and console-tools only ever use OP_GET
  and OP_SET
- fbset documentation only mentions the kernel cmdline font: option,
  not anything else.
- systemd used OP_COPY before release 232 published in Nov 2016

Now unfortunately the crucial report seems to have gone down with
gmane, and the commit message doesn't say much. But the pull request
hints at OP_COPY being broken

systemd/systemd#3651

So in other words, this never worked, and the only project which
foolishly every tried to use it, realized that rather quickly too.

Instead of trying to fix security issues here on dead code by adding
missing checks, fix the entire thing by removing the functionality.

Note that systemd code using the OP_COPY function ignored the return
value, so it doesn't matter what we're doing here really - just in
case a lone server somewhere happens to be extremely unlucky and
running an affected old version of systemd. The relevant code from
font_copy_to_all_vcs() in systemd was:

	/* copy font from active VT, where the font was uploaded to */
	cfo.op = KD_FONT_OP_COPY;
	cfo.height = vcs.v_active-1; /* tty1 == index 0 */
	(void) ioctl(vcfd, KDFONTOP, &cfo);

Note this just disables the ioctl, garbage collecting the now unused
callbacks is left for -next.

v2: Tetsuo found the old mail, which allowed me to find it on another
archive. Add the link too.

Acked-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minh Yuan <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
References: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036935.html
References: systemd/systemd#3651
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201108153806.3140315-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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