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| author | Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> | 2016-10-14 15:18:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-10-27 16:41:56 +0200 |
| commit | 32b2921e6a7461fe63b71217067a6cf4bddb132f (patch) | |
| tree | f5407accc9e39ef82d4abe0b459ef666f8b30e18 /drivers | |
| parent | d704b2d32c39c256dea659e142a31b875a13c63b (diff) | |
| download | linux-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')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 |
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; |