This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vt_ioctl: add array_index_nospec to VT_ACTIVATE

to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 28cb138f559f8c1a1395f5564f86b8bbee83631b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakob Koschel jakobkoschel@gmail.com Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:44:05 +0100 Subject: vt_ioctl: add array_index_nospec to VT_ACTIVATE

in vt_setactivate an almost identical code path has been patched with array_index_nospec. In the VT_ACTIVATE path the user input is from a system call argument instead of a usercopy. For consistency both code paths should have the same mitigations applied.

Kasper Acknowledgements: Jakob Koschel, Brian Johannesmeyer, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida from the VUSec group at VU Amsterdam.

Co-developed-by: Brian Johannesmeyer bjohannesmeyer@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Brian Johannesmeyer bjohannesmeyer@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel jakobkoschel@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127144406.3589293-2-jakobkoschel@gmail.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c index e0714a9c9fd7..58013698635f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c @@ -845,6 +845,7 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, return -ENXIO;

arg--; + arg = array_index_nospec(arg, MAX_NR_CONSOLES); console_lock(); ret = vc_allocate(arg); console_unlock();