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authorAntonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>2007-10-16 01:29:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:20 -0700
commite400b6ec4ede4dc0aa8e5640425df5b29796fe0e (patch)
tree8fbca730c850fd85fbf0f2d70daef7765ed4cb7f /drivers/char/vt.c
parent0058f479e52d0c0718c843cb34223bc1bfce36e1 (diff)
vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspace
Various console drivers are able to resize the screen via the con_resize() hook. This hook is also visible in userspace via the TIOCWINSZ, VT_RESIZE and VT_RESIZEX ioctl's. One particular utility, SVGATextMode, expects that con_resize() of the VGA console will always return success even if the resulting screen is not compatible with the hardware. However, this particular behavior of the VGA console, as reported in Kernel Bugzilla Bug 7513, can cause undefined behavior if the user starts with a console size larger than 80x25. To work around this problem, add an extra parameter to con_resize(). This parameter is ignored by drivers except for vgacon. If this parameter is non-zero, then the resize request came from a VT_RESIZE or VT_RESIZEX ioctl and vgacon will always return success. If this parameter is zero, vgacon will return -EINVAL if the requested size is not compatible with the hardware. The latter is the more correct behavior. With this change, SVGATextMode should still work correctly while in-kernel and stty resize calls can expect correct behavior from vgacon. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/vt.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index edb7002a3216..0d56f8fc105c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -750,13 +750,15 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */
return 0;
}
-static inline int resize_screen(struct vc_data *vc, int width, int height)
+static inline int resize_screen(struct vc_data *vc, int width, int height,
+ int user)
{
/* Resizes the resolution of the display adapater */
int err = 0;
if (vc->vc_mode != KD_GRAPHICS && vc->vc_sw->con_resize)
- err = vc->vc_sw->con_resize(vc, width, height);
+ err = vc->vc_sw->con_resize(vc, width, height, user);
+
return err;
}
@@ -772,7 +774,7 @@ int vc_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int cols, unsigned int lines)
unsigned long old_origin, new_origin, new_scr_end, rlth, rrem, err = 0;
unsigned int old_cols, old_rows, old_row_size, old_screen_size;
unsigned int new_cols, new_rows, new_row_size, new_screen_size;
- unsigned int end;
+ unsigned int end, user;
unsigned short *newscreen;
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED();
@@ -780,6 +782,9 @@ int vc_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int cols, unsigned int lines)
if (!vc)
return -ENXIO;
+ user = vc->vc_resize_user;
+ vc->vc_resize_user = 0;
+
if (cols > VC_RESIZE_MAXCOL || lines > VC_RESIZE_MAXROW)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -800,7 +805,7 @@ int vc_resize(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int cols, unsigned int lines)
old_row_size = vc->vc_size_row;
old_screen_size = vc->vc_screenbuf_size;
- err = resize_screen(vc, new_cols, new_rows);
+ err = resize_screen(vc, new_cols, new_rows, user);
if (err) {
kfree(newscreen);
return err;