release/5.2.43/vt-don-t-use-kmalloc-for-the-unicode-screen-buffer.patch

From 814f00bb5c0bad30736bc423b23d5ab902c2619c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:25:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] vt: don't use kmalloc() for the unicode screen buffer

commit 9a98e7a80f95378c9ee0c644705e3b5aa54745f1 upstream.

Even if the actual screen size is bounded in vc_do_resize(), the unicode
buffer is still a little more than twice the size of the glyph buffer
and may exceed MAX_ORDER down the kmalloc() path. This can be triggered
from user space.

Since there is no point having a physically contiguous buffer here,
let's avoid the above issue as well as reducing pressure on high order
allocations by using vmalloc() instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2003282214210.2671@knanqh.ubzr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 0a115e567b30..a54135f6861c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kd.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/major.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ static struct uni_screen *vc_uniscr_alloc(unsigned int cols, unsigned int rows)
 	/* allocate everything in one go */
 	memsize = cols * rows * sizeof(char32_t);
 	memsize += rows * sizeof(char32_t *);
-	p = kmalloc(memsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = vmalloc(memsize);
 	if (!p)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -366,7 +367,7 @@ static struct uni_screen *vc_uniscr_alloc(unsigned int cols, unsigned int rows)
 
 static void vc_uniscr_set(struct vc_data *vc, struct uni_screen *new_uniscr)
 {
-	kfree(vc->vc_uni_screen);
+	vfree(vc->vc_uni_screen);
 	vc->vc_uni_screen = new_uniscr;
 }
 
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2.7.4