tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars
authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:18:28 +0000 (15:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:41:56 +0000 (16:41 +0200)
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
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

index ae203c2cd15a753462a4fee35d1e98ebaaabb218..26cda08bc6117ece90a837f26fde19253ac7b0da 100644 (file)
@@ -870,6 +870,8 @@ 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;