[3/4] fbcon: Disallow setting font bigger than screen size
authorHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 10:56:49 +0000 (12:56 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:32:10 +0000 (23:32 +0100)
commite84c23d737aaa61ab31bd16a12e76c6501021367
tree54cb295de6edc140cf7419fbbcee39ace55fa4f7
parent9c1df3e727a5bad0f09d5e7e237a76c452f4b861
[3/4] fbcon: Disallow setting font bigger than screen size

Origin: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit?id=b727561ddc9360de9631af2d970d8ffed676a750
Bug-Debian-Security: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33655

commit 65a01e601dbba8b7a51a2677811f70f783766682 upstream.

Prevent that users set a font size which is bigger than the physical screen.
It's unlikely this may happen (because screens are usually much larger than the
fonts and each font char is limited to 32x32 pixels), but it may happen on
smaller screens/LCD displays.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name fbcon-disallow-setting-font-bigger-than-screen-size.patch
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c