fbdev: udlfb: don't rebuild the mode list while the framebuffer is in use

dlfb_setup_modes() frees info->modelist with fb_destroy_modelist() and
rebuilds it, but fbcon holds raw pointers into that list in
fb_display[i].mode and nothing un-publishes them the way
do_unregister_framebuffer() and store_modes() do with
fbcon_delete_modelist(). The function does refuse to install a new mode
while the framebuffer has users (dlfb->fb_count != 0), but only after the
list is already destroyed. Reached from the 0666 "edid" sysfs attribute,
an unprivileged write to /sys/class/graphics/fb0/edid therefore fails with
-EINVAL and still leaves every fb_display[i].mode dangling; the next
console switch reads the freed fb_videomode in fb_videomode_to_var().

Test fb_count before touching the list. fbcon takes a reference through
fbcon_open(), so that condition covers exactly the states in which
fb_display[] points into the list, and the errno returned to userspace is
unchanged.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fb_videomode_to_var (drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c:905)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880107b449c by task kworker/1:1/47
  Workqueue: events console_callback
  Call Trace:
   fb_videomode_to_var (drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c:905)
   display_to_var (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:998)
   fbcon_switch (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2182)
   redraw_screen (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:994)
   complete_change_console (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:1141)
   console_callback (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3358)
   process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3396)
   worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3479 kernel/workqueue.c:3560)
   kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
   ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
   ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
  ...
  The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of
   freed 96-byte region [ffff8880107b4480, ffff8880107b44e0)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7d9485e2c5 ("Staging: udlfb: Add functions to expose sysfs metrics and controls")
Reported-by: co+ed9902f2e44184d9@bugs.sh
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1jSCSNaDKmuUG7h40rTsSl1rMaSwdlJef4rp%40bugs.sh/
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1jSCSNaDKmuUG7h40rTsSl1rMaSwdlJef4rp%40bugs.sh/
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Xiang Mei 2026-09-12 14:15:12 -07:00 committed by Helge Deller
parent 317a8be730
commit ac9cfa5521

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@ -1293,6 +1293,11 @@ static int dlfb_setup_modes(struct dlfb_data *dlfb,
goto error;
}
if (dlfb->fb_count) {
result = -EINVAL;
goto error;
}
fb_destroy_modelist(&info->modelist);
memset(&info->monspecs, 0, sizeof(info->monspecs));