| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 31/69] tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:44:09 +0100 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
commit 32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f upstream.
Size of kmalloc() in vc_do_resize() is controlled by user. Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console. Put a reasonable upper bound on terminal size to prevent WARNINGs.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -872,6 +872,8 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struc if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows) return 0; + if (new_screen_size > (4 << 20)) + return -EINVAL; newscreen = kmalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER); if (!newscreen) return -ENOMEM;
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