On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:27:21PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2020/07/16 19:00, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:29:00AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > >> On 2020/07/16 0:12, Dan Carpenter wrote: > >>> I've complained about integer overflows in fbdev for a long time... > >>> > >>> What I'd like to see is something like the following maybe. I don't > >>> know how to get the vc_data in fbmem.c so it doesn't include your checks > >>> for negative. > >> > >> Yes. Like I said "Thus, I consider that we need more sanity/constraints > >> checks." at > >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b1e7dd6a-fc22-bba8-0abb-d3e779329...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp/ > >> , > >> we want basic checks. That's a task for fbdev people who should be > >> familiar with > >> necessary constraints. > > > > I think the worldwide supply of people who understand fbdev and willing to > > work on it is roughly 0. So if someone wants to fix this mess properly > > (which likely means adding tons of over/underflow checks at entry points, > > since you're never going to catch the driver bugs, there's too many and > > not enough people who care) they need to fix this themselves. > > But I think we can enforce reasonable constraint which is much stricter than > Dan's basic_checks() > (which used INT_MAX). For example, do we need to accept var->{xres,yres} >= > 1048576, for > "32768 rows or cols" * "32 pixels per character" = 1045876 and vc_do_resize() > accepts only > rows and cols < 32768 ? > > > > > Just to avoid confusion here. > > > >> Anyway, my two patches are small and low cost; can we apply these patches > >> regardless > >> of basic checks? > > > > Which two patches where? > > [PATCH v3] vt: Reject zero-sized screen buffer size. > from > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712111013.11881-1-penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp
This is now in my tree. > [PATCH v2] fbdev: Detect integer underflow at "struct > fbcon_ops"->clear_margins. > from > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200715015102.3814-1-penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp That should be taken by the fbdev maintainer, but I can take it too if people want. thanks, greg k-h