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authorNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>2018-07-19 00:05:25 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-07-21 09:19:46 +0200
commitd541ae4e76ae35b76490206ef946a9124b993e32 (patch)
tree5c04d74c91af1d1a312030921042f433a7e8942a /drivers/tty
parentvt: add /dev/vcsu* to devices.txt (diff)
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vt: avoid a VLA in the unicode screen scroll function
The nr argument is typically small: most often nr == 1. However this could be abused with a very large explicit scroll in a resized screen. Make the code scroll lines by performing an array rotation operation to avoid the need for a large temporary space. Requested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/vt.c36
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 4b3c371f0f84..5f1183b0b89d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
#include <linux/kdb.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/bsearch.h>
+#include <linux/gcd.h>
#define MAX_NR_CON_DRIVER 16
@@ -434,20 +435,29 @@ static void vc_uniscr_scroll(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int t, unsigned int b,
struct uni_screen *uniscr = get_vc_uniscr(vc);
if (uniscr) {
- unsigned int s, d, rescue, clear;
- char32_t *save[nr];
-
- s = clear = t;
- d = t + nr;
- rescue = b - nr;
- if (dir == SM_UP) {
- swap(s, d);
- swap(clear, rescue);
+ unsigned int i, j, k, sz, d, clear;
+
+ sz = b - t;
+ clear = b - nr;
+ d = nr;
+ if (dir == SM_DOWN) {
+ clear = t;
+ d = sz - nr;
+ }
+ for (i = 0; i < gcd(d, sz); i++) {
+ char32_t *tmp = uniscr->lines[t + i];
+ j = i;
+ while (1) {
+ k = j + d;
+ if (k >= sz)
+ k -= sz;
+ if (k == i)
+ break;
+ uniscr->lines[t + j] = uniscr->lines[t + k];
+ j = k;
+ }
+ uniscr->lines[t + j] = tmp;
}
- memcpy(save, uniscr->lines + rescue, nr * sizeof(*save));
- memmove(uniscr->lines + d, uniscr->lines + s,
- (b - t - nr) * sizeof(*uniscr->lines));
- memcpy(uniscr->lines + clear, save, nr * sizeof(*save));
vc_uniscr_clear_lines(vc, clear, nr);
}
}