font.data may not initialize all memory spaces depending on the implementation of vc->vc_sw->con_font_get. This may cause info-leak, so to prevent this, it is safest to modify it to initialize the allocated memory space to 0, and it generally does not affect the overall performance of the system.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot+955da2d57931604ee691@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 05e2600cb0a4 ("VT: Bump font size limitation to 64x128 pixels") Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index cd87e3d1291e..96842ce817af 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -4726,7 +4726,7 @@ static int con_font_get(struct vc_data *vc, struct console_font_op *op) return -EINVAL;
if (op->data) { - font.data = kvmalloc(max_font_size, GFP_KERNEL); + font.data = kvzalloc(max_font_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!font.data) return -ENOMEM; } else --