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authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2016-10-14 15:18:28 +0200
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-04-11 10:58:32 +0200
commit0663e68da0682547796f88f3b9bd08fb3960fd9e (patch)
tree64b2c718d2851a67611ff34b484284714c3d198c /drivers
parent7a14342009106e049b4d820996f134f21fb29cc3 (diff)
tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars
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> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/vt.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 6dff19475..ee51acdc6 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -863,6 +863,8 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
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;