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Grzegorz Halat a1ad1cc970 vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual_init() after failed memory allocation
After memory allocation failure vc_allocate() doesn't clean up data
which has been initialized in visual_init(). In case of fbcon this
leads to divide-by-0 in fbcon_init() on next open of the same tty.

memory allocation in vc_allocate() may fail here:
1097:     vc->vc_screenbuf = kzalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_KERNEL);

on next open() fbcon_init() skips vc_font.data initialization:
1088:     if (!p->fontdata) {

division by zero in fbcon_init() happens here:
1149:     new_cols /= vc->vc_font.width;

Additional check is needed in fbcon_deinit() to prevent
usage of uninitialized vc_screenbuf:

1251:        if (vc->vc_hi_font_mask && vc->vc_screenbuf)
1252:                set_vc_hi_font(vc, false);

Crash:

 #6 [ffffc90001eafa60] divide_error at ffffffff81a00be4
    [exception RIP: fbcon_init+463]
    RIP: ffffffff814b860f  RSP: ffffc90001eafb18  RFLAGS: 00010246
...
 #7 [ffffc90001eafb60] visual_init at ffffffff8154c36e
 #8 [ffffc90001eafb80] vc_allocate at ffffffff8154f53c
 #9 [ffffc90001eafbc8] con_install at ffffffff8154f624
...

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-24 17:08:18 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.