Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: selection: Add check for valid tiocl_selection values

From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Khalid Masum <khalid.masum.92@gmail.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+14b0e8f3fd1612e35350@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: selection: Add check for valid tiocl_selection values
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 07:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1eb62346-304b-54d5-8a62-8a35888d51bd@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YuV9PybMPgc83Jis@p100>

On 30. 07. 22, 20:49, Helge Deller wrote:
> The line and column numbers for the selection need to start at 1.
> Add the checks to prevent invalid input.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Reported-by: syzbot+14b0e8f3fd1612e35350@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> index f7755e73696e..58692a9b4097 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> @@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ static int vc_selection(struct vc_data *vc, struct tiocl_selection *v,
>   		return 0;
>   	}
> 
> +	if (!v->xs || !v->ys || !v->xe || !v->ye)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Hmm, I'm not sure about this. It potentially breaks userspace (by 
returning EINVAL now). And the code below should handle this just fine, 
right:

> +
>   	v->xs = min_t(u16, v->xs - 1, vc->vc_cols - 1);
>   	v->ys = min_t(u16, v->ys - 1, vc->vc_rows - 1);
>   	v->xe = min_t(u16, v->xe - 1, vc->vc_cols - 1);

?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs