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authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2016-10-14 15:18:28 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-10-27 16:41:56 +0200
commit32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f (patch)
treef5407accc9e39ef82d4abe0b459ef666f8b30e18 /drivers/tty/vt
parentd704b2d32c39c256dea659e142a31b875a13c63b (diff)
downloadlinux-32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f.tar.bz2
tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/vt')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/vt.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index ae203c2cd15a..26cda08bc611 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -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;