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<title>vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T10:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
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<published>2021-05-13T09:51:50+00:00</published>
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commit 860dafa902595fb5f1d23bbcce1215188c3341e6 upstream.

Restore the original intent of the VT_RESIZEX ioctl's `v_clin' parameter
which is the number of pixel rows per character (cell) rather than the
height of the font used.

For framebuffer devices the two values are always the same, because the
former is inferred from the latter one.  For VGA used as a true text
mode device these two parameters are independent from each other: the
number of pixel rows per character is set in the CRT controller, while
font height is in fact hardwired to 32 pixel rows and fonts of heights
below that value are handled by padding their data with blanks when
loaded to hardware for use by the character generator.  One can change
the setting in the CRT controller and it will update the screen contents
accordingly regardless of the font loaded.

The `v_clin' parameter is used by the `vgacon' driver to set the height
of the character cell and then the cursor position within.  Make the
parameter explicit then, by defining a new `vc_cell_height' struct
member of `vc_data', set it instead of `vc_font.height' from `v_clin' in
the VT_RESIZEX ioctl, and then use it throughout the `vgacon' driver
except where actual font data is accessed which as noted above is
independent from the CRTC setting.

This way the framebuffer console driver is free to ignore the `v_clin'
parameter as irrelevant, as it always should have, avoiding any issues
attempts to give the parameter a meaning there could have caused, such
as one that has led to commit 988d0763361b ("vt_ioctl: make VT_RESIZEX
behave like VT_RESIZE"):

 "syzbot is reporting UAF/OOB read at bit_putcs()/soft_cursor() [1][2],
  for vt_resizex() from ioctl(VT_RESIZEX) allows setting font height
  larger than actual font height calculated by con_font_set() from
  ioctl(PIO_FONT). Since fbcon_set_font() from con_font_set() allocates
  minimal amount of memory based on actual font height calculated by
  con_font_set(), use of vt_resizex() can cause UAF/OOB read for font
  data."

The problem first appeared around Linux 2.5.66 which predates our repo
history, but the origin could be identified with the old MIPS/Linux repo
also at: &lt;git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ralf/linux.git&gt;
as commit 9736a3546de7 ("Merge with Linux 2.5.66."), where VT_RESIZEX
code in `vt_ioctl' was updated as follows:

 		if (clin)
-			video_font_height = clin;
+			vc-&gt;vc_font.height = clin;

making the parameter apply to framebuffer devices as well, perhaps due
to the use of "font" in the name of the original `video_font_height'
variable.  Use "cell" in the new struct member then to avoid ambiguity.

References:

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=32577e96d88447ded2d3b76d71254fb855245837
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6b8355d27b2b94fb5cedf4655e3a59162d9e48e3

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T10:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-13T09:51:41+00:00</published>
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commit d4d0ad57b3865795c4cde2fb5094c594c2e8f469 upstream.

Fix an issue with VGA console font size changes made after the initial
video text mode has been changed with a user tool like `svgatextmode'
calling the VT_RESIZEX ioctl.  As it stands in that case the original
screen geometry continues being used to validate further VT resizing.

Consequently when the video adapter is firstly reprogrammed from the
original say 80x25 text mode using a 9x16 character cell (720x400 pixel
resolution) to say 80x37 text mode and the same character cell (720x592
pixel resolution), and secondly the CRTC character cell updated to 9x8
(by loading a suitable font with the KD_FONT_OP_SET request of the
KDFONTOP ioctl), the VT geometry does not get further updated from 80x37
and only upper half of the screen is used for the VT, with the lower
half showing rubbish corresponding to whatever happens to be there in
the video memory that maps to that part of the screen.  Of course the
proportions change according to text mode geometries and font sizes
chosen.

Address the problem then, by updating the text mode geometry defaults
rather than checking against them whenever the VT is resized via a user
ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: e400b6ec4ede ("vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.24+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>vgacon: drop BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS</title>
<updated>2021-01-07T15:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-05T12:02:36+00:00</published>
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BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS is defined when CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y. And
vgacon.c is built exclusively in that case too. So the check for
BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS is pointless in vgacon.c as it is always true.
So remove the test and BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS completely.

This also eliminates the need for vga_font_is_default global as it is
only set and never read.

Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105120239.28031-9-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc/sticore: Avoid hard-coding built-in font charcount</title>
<updated>2020-11-16T15:31:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peilin Ye</name>
<email>yepeilin.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-12T12:14:21+00:00</published>
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sti_select_fbfont() and sti_cook_fonts() are hard-coding the number of
characters of our built-in fonts as 256. Recently, we included that
information in our kernel font descriptor `struct font_desc`, so use
`fbfont-&gt;charcount` instead of hard-coded values.

Depends on patch "Fonts: Add charcount field to font_desc".

Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye &lt;yepeilin.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/037186fb50cf3d17bb7bc9482357635b9df6076e.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>console: Delete dummy con_font_set() and con_font_default() callback implementations</title>
<updated>2020-11-16T15:31:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peilin Ye</name>
<email>yepeilin.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-12T12:11:20+00:00</published>
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.con_font_set and .con_font_default callbacks should not pass `struct
console_font *` as a parameter, since `struct console_font` is a UAPI
structure.

We are trying to let them use our new kernel font descriptor, `struct
font_desc` instead. To make that work slightly easier, first delete all of
their no-op implementations used by dummy consoles.

This will make KD_FONT_OP_SET and KD_FONT_OP_SET_DEFAULT ioctl() requests
on dummy consoles start to fail and return `-ENOSYS`, which is intended,
since no user should ever expect such operations to succeed on dummy
consoles.

Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye &lt;yepeilin.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/9952c7538d2a32bb1a82af323be482e7afb3dedf.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>console: Delete unused con_font_copy() callback implementations</title>
<updated>2020-11-16T15:27:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peilin Ye</name>
<email>yepeilin.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-12T12:04:03+00:00</published>
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Recently in commit 3c4e0dff2095 ("vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY") we
disabled the KD_FONT_OP_COPY ioctl() option. Delete all the
con_font_copy() callbacks, since we no longer use them.

Mark KD_FONT_OP_COPY as "obsolete" in include/uapi/linux/kd.h, just like
what we have done for PPPIOCDETACH in commit af8d3c7c001a ("ppp: remove
the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl").

Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye &lt;yepeilin.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/c8d28007edf50de4387e1532eb3eb736db716f73.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next</title>
<updated>2020-11-02T10:17:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>maxime@cerno.tech</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-02T10:17:54+00:00</published>
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Daniel needs -rc2 in drm-misc-next to merge some patches

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;maxime@cerno.tech&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc</title>
<updated>2020-10-28T18:40:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peilin Ye</name>
<email>yepeilin.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-28T10:56:47+00:00</published>
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`width` and `height` are defined as unsigned in our UAPI font descriptor
`struct console_font`. Make them unsigned in our kernel font descriptor
`struct font_desc`, too.

Also, change the corresponding printk() format identifiers from `%d` to
`%u`, in sti_select_fbfont().

Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye &lt;yepeilin.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201028105647.1210161-1-yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>parisc/sticon: Add user font support</title>
<updated>2020-10-15T06:12:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T08:44:52+00:00</published>
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This is a major rework of the sticon (parisc text console) driver in
order to support user font support.

Usually one want to use the stifb (parisc framebuffer driver) which is
based on fbcon and does support fonts and colors, but some old machines
(e.g. HP 730 workstations) don't provide a supported stifb graphic card,
and for those user fonts are preferred.

This patch drops unused code for software cursor and scrollback,
enhances the debug output and adds better documentation.

The code was tested on various machines with byte-mode and word-mode
graphic cards on GSC- and PCI-busses.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc/sticon: Always register sticon console driver</title>
<updated>2020-10-15T06:10:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T07:05:09+00:00</published>
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If the ROM provides functional STI routines, always register the sticon
driver, even if the serial console was choosen as boot device.
Additionally, in that case, do not make the sticon driver the default
output console device.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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