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    tty: vt: remove multi-fetch, derive font.height from font.data · 8ffb8209
    Meng Xu 提交于
    In con_font_set(), when we need to guess font height (for
    compat reasons?), the current approach uses multiple userspace
    fetches, i.e., get_user(tmp, &charmap[32*i+h-1]), to derive
    the height. This has two drawbacks:
    
    1. performance: accessing userspace memory is less efficient than
    directly de-reference the byte
    
    2. security: a more critical problem is that the height derived
    might not match with the actual font.data. This is because a user
    thread might race condition to change the memory of op->data after
    the op->height guessing but before the second fetch: font.data =
    memdup_user(op->data, size). Leaving font.height = 32 while the
    actual height is 1 or vice-versa.
    
    This patch tries to resolve both issues by re-locating the height
    guessing part after the font.data is fetched in. In this way, the
    userspace data is fetched in one shot and we directly dereference
    the font.data in kernel space to probe for the height.
    Signed-off-by: NMeng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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