fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbcon: Make sure modelist not set on unregistered console It looks like attempting to write to the "store_modes" sysfs node will run afoul of unregistered consoles: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122:28 index -1 is out of range for type 'fb_info *[32]' ... fbcon_info_from_console+0x192/0x1a0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:122 fbcon_new_modelist+0xbf/0x2d0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:3048 fb_new_modelist+0x328/0x440 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:673 store_modes+0x1c9/0x3e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c:113 dev_attr_store+0x55/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2439 static struct fb_info *fbcon_registered_fb[FB_MAX]; ... static signed char con2fb_map[MAX_NR_CONSOLES]; ... static struct fb_info *fbcon_info_from_console(int console) ... return fbcon_registered_fb[con2fb_map[console]]; If con2fb_map contains a -1 things go wrong here. Instead, return NULL, as callers of fbcon_info_from_console() are trying to compare against existing "info" pointers, so error handling should kick in correctly.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3237d451bf3a4490cb1a76f3b7c91d9888f1c4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/519ba75728ee8cd561dce25fc52a2ec5c47171dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f28f1f578cd810779d01999c60618cda14c281dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54b28f7c567dd659e5f9562f518e4d7f3f6a367b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cedc1b63394a866bf8663a3e40f4546f1d28c8d8
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