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authorYi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>2026-09-01 11:31:31 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-10-01 11:15:09 +0200
commit226bd5603371cd9f6642cbb9e9a677f445de3530 (patch)
tree95cefdfa8fd5d00fb0ee0e1979cd616f3a1deef2 /drivers
parentd9feaa93328a6f885afb8ac6374897fafc294222 (diff)
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vc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write() to avoid UAF
The reload of 'vc' added by commit 8fb9ea65c9d1 ("vc_screen: reload load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_write() to avoid UAF") sits after the 'if (ret)' block, so the copy-failure break path exits the loop without reloading vc. If the vc was kfree()'d via vc_port_destruct during the unlocked copy_from_user() window, the post-loop 'if (written && vc) vcs_scr_updated(vc)' is reached with a stale non-NULL vc. The '&& vc' guard from commit a287620312dc ("vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write") only handles the NULL case, not this stale-non-NULL case; vcs_notifier() then reads param->vc->vc_num from freed memory: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vcs_notifier+0x7c/0xd0 Read of size 2 at addr ffff888007149190 Call Trace: vcs_notifier+0x7c/0xd0 atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xa0 vcs_scr_updated+0x77/0xa0 vcs_write+0x71b/0x7e0 Allocated by task: vc_allocate -> con_install -> tty_open Freed by task: kfree <- vt_ioctl (VT_DISALLOCATE -> vc_port_destruct) Move the reload to immediately after console_lock(), before 'if (ret)', so every break path below passes a fresh vc to the post-loop vcs_scr_updated(). Fixes: a287620312dc ("vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901113131.2760010-1-yiyang13@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c23
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
index bf1502fd5..79453abcf 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
@@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
ret = copy_from_user(con_buf, buf, this_round);
console_lock();
+ /* The vc might have been freed or vcs_size might have changed
+ * while we slept to grab the user buffer; recheck here, before
+ * if (ret), so every break path below passes a fresh vc to the
+ * post-loop vcs_scr_updated(). Return data written so far.
+ */
+ vc = vcs_vc(inode, &viewed);
+ if (!vc) {
+ if (written)
+ break;
+ return -ENXIO;
+ }
+
if (ret) {
this_round -= ret;
if (!this_round) {
@@ -642,17 +654,6 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
return -EFAULT;
}
}
-
- /* The vc might have been freed or vcs_size might have changed
- * while we slept to grab the user buffer, so recheck.
- * Return data written up to now on failure.
- */
- vc = vcs_vc(inode, &viewed);
- if (!vc) {
- if (written)
- break;
- return -ENXIO;
- }
size = vcs_size(vc, attr, false);
if (size < 0) {
if (written)