Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: vga16fb: fix OOB write in vga16fb_imageblit()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:32 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Another alternative would be to just delay the resize to when vcmode
> is put back to text mode again. That sounds somewhat reasonable to me,
> but it's a pretty big thing.

Actually thinking more about that option, it sounds horrible. It would
mean that we'd continue to use the old geometry for the actual VC
buffers for a random time, and then change it to the new geometry at
some arbitrary point.

So I think the only reasonable approach (apart from just my "don't do
that then") might be to just always call ->con_resize().

There are only actually three cases of "->con_resize()", so it might
not be too bad.

Looking at it, both sisusbcon_resize() and vgacon_resize() seem to be
trivially fine in KD_GRAPHICS mode.

vgacon already seems to have that "!vga_is_gfx" test, and does
vgacon_doresize() at vgacon_switch(). It might need to add a
vgacon_doresize() to the vgacon_blank() case 0 code so that it
actually does the right thing when going back to KD_TEXT mode.

And fbcon_resize() looks like it might be mostly ok with it too.
Again, there is a con_is_visible() test, and I suspect that might need
to be changed to

        if (con_is_visible(vc) && vc->vc_mode == KD_TEXT)

instead,  but it doesn't look _too_ bad.

So I think just removing the "vc->vc_mode != KD_GRAPHICS" test from
resize_screen() might be the way to go. That way, the low-level data
structures actually are in sync with the resize, and the "out of
bounds" bug should never happen.

Would you mind testing that?

               Linus