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authorAntonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>2005-09-06 15:17:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:36 -0700
commit414edcd32aa54bad8827e7c74cace168006c5fab (patch)
tree4c4861b54b2c1529c4677e6d31bb6027568aaa1a /drivers/char
parenteed74dfcd48101d259012ac08d29061eea500249 (diff)
[PATCH] vt: fix possible memory corruption in complement_pos
Based on a patch from Andr Pereira de Almeida <andre@cachola.com.br> It might be possible for the saved pointer (*p) to become invalid in between vc_resizes, so saving the screen offset instead of the screen pointer is saner. This bug is very hard to trigger though, but Andre probably did, if he's submitting this patch. Anyway, with Andre's patch, it's still possible for the offsets to be still illegal, if the new screen size is smaller than the old one. So I've also added checks if the offsets are still within the screenbuffer size. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 27b6c297906..b8d0c290b0d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -434,21 +434,25 @@ void invert_screen(struct vc_data *vc, int offset, int count, int viewed)
/* used by selection: complement pointer position */
void complement_pos(struct vc_data *vc, int offset)
{
- static unsigned short *p;
+ static int old_offset = -1;
static unsigned short old;
static unsigned short oldx, oldy;
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED();
- if (p) {
- scr_writew(old, p);
+ if (old_offset != -1 && old_offset >= 0 &&
+ old_offset < vc->vc_screenbuf_size) {
+ scr_writew(old, screenpos(vc, old_offset, 1));
if (DO_UPDATE(vc))
vc->vc_sw->con_putc(vc, old, oldy, oldx);
}
- if (offset == -1)
- p = NULL;
- else {
+
+ old_offset = offset;
+
+ if (offset != -1 && offset >= 0 &&
+ offset < vc->vc_screenbuf_size) {
unsigned short new;
+ unsigned short *p;
p = screenpos(vc, offset, 1);
old = scr_readw(p);
new = old ^ vc->vc_complement_mask;
@@ -459,6 +463,7 @@ void complement_pos(struct vc_data *vc, int offset)
vc->vc_sw->con_putc(vc, new, oldy, oldx);
}
}
+
}
static void insert_char(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int nr)