The row/column bounds (for a screen window box) are changed from
'offset one' to 'offset zero' and bound to the screen size using:
v->xs = min_t(u16, v->xs - 1, vc->vc_cols - 1);
This has the side effect of converting zero to the limit.
A check I'm adding to min_t() reports that (u16)(v->xs - 1) (etc)
discards signiticant bits (because v->xs is promoted to 'int' before
the addition).
If v->xs is zero (it comes from userspace) it converts -1 to 0xffff.
This is then bounded to 'vc->vc_cols - 1' which will be fine.
Replace with:
v->xs = umin(v->xs - 1, vc->vc_cols - 1);
which again converts a -1 to unsigned - this time to 0xffffffff,
with the same overall effect.
Whether zero is meant to mean the 'maximum size' is unknown.
I can't find any documentation for the ioctl and it pre-dates git.
Detected by an extra check added to min_t().
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119224140.8616-28-david.laight.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Having all the new guards, use them in the vt code. This improves
readability, makes error handling easier, and marks locked portions of
code explicit.
A local free_page_ptr __free guard is introduced for
__get_free_page/free_page (with proper casts). This could be made public
in include/. But I am not sure if there are more possible users, so
keeping completely private here.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814072456.182853-16-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is comprised of 3 aspects:
- Take note of when applications advertise bracketed paste support via
"\e[?2004h" and "\e[?2004l".
- Insert bracketed paste markers ("\e[200~" and "\e[201~") around pasted
content in paste_selection() when bracketed paste is active.
- Add TIOCL_GETBRACKETEDPASTE to return bracketed paste status so user
space daemons implementing cut-and-paste functionality (e.g. gpm,
BRLTTY) may know when to insert bracketed paste markers.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracketed-paste
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520171851.1219676-2-nico@fluxnic.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This requirement was overeagerly loosened in commit 2f83e38a09
("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN"), but as
it turns out,
(1) the logic I implemented there was inconsistent (apologies!),
(2) TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT might actually be a small security risk
after all, and
(3) TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is only meant to be used by the mouse
daemon (GPM or Consolation), which runs as CAP_SYS_ADMIN
already.
In more detail:
1. The previous patch has inconsistent logic:
In commit 2f83e38a09 ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes
without CAP_SYS_ADMIN"), we checked for sel_mode ==
TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, but overlooked that the lower four bits of
this "mode" parameter were actually used as an additional way to
pass an argument. So the patch did actually still require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, if any of the mouse button bits are set, but did not
require it if none of the mouse buttons bits are set.
This logic is inconsistent and was not intentional. We should have
the same policies for using TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT independent of the
value of the "hidden" mouse button argument.
I sent a separate documentation patch to the man page list with
more details on TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250223091342.35523-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com/
2. TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is indeed a potential security risk which can
let an attacker simulate "keyboard" input to command line
applications on the same terminal, like TIOCSTI and some other
TIOCLINUX "selection mode" IOCTLs.
By enabling mouse reporting on a terminal and then injecting mouse
reports through TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, an attacker can simulate
mouse movements on the same terminal, similar to the TIOCSTI
keystroke injection attacks that were previously possible with
TIOCSTI and other TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes.
Many programs (including libreadline/bash) are then prone to
misinterpret these mouse reports as normal keyboard input because
they do not expect input in the X11 mouse protocol form. The
attacker does not have complete control over the escape sequence,
but they can at least control the values of two consecutive bytes
in the binary mouse reporting escape sequence.
I went into more detail on that in the discussion at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221.0a947528d8f3@gnoack.org/
It is not equally trivial to simulate arbitrary keystrokes as it
was with TIOCSTI (commit 83efeeeb3d ("tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be
disabled")), but the general mechanism is there, and together with
the small number of existing legit use cases (see below), it would
be better to revert back to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for
TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, as it was already the case before
commit 2f83e38a09 ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without
CAP_SYS_ADMIN").
3. TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is only used by the mouse daemons (GPM or
Consolation), and they are the only legit use case:
To quote console_codes(4):
The mouse tracking facility is intended to return
xterm(1)-compatible mouse status reports. Because the console
driver has no way to know the device or type of the mouse, these
reports are returned in the console input stream only when the
virtual terminal driver receives a mouse update ioctl. These
ioctls must be generated by a mouse-aware user-mode application
such as the gpm(8) daemon.
Jared Finder has also confirmed in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/491f3df9de6593df8e70dbe77614b026@finder.org/
that Emacs does not call TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT directly, and it
would be difficult to find good reasons for doing that, given that
it would interfere with the reports that GPM is sending.
More information on the interaction between GPM, terminals and the
kernel with additional pointers is also available in this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/a773e48920aa104a65073671effbdee665c105fc.1603963593.git.tammo.block@gmail.com/
For background on who else uses TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT: Debian Code
search finds one page of results, the only two known callers are
the two mouse daemons GPM and Consolation. (GPM does not show up
in the search results because it uses literal numbers to refer to
TIOCLINUX-related enums. I looked through GPM by hand instead.
TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is also not used from libgpm.)
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT
Cc: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Fixes: 2f83e38a09 ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN")
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411070144.3959-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
With this, processes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN are able to use TIOCLINUX with
subcode TIOCL_SETSEL, in the selection modes TIOCL_SETPOINTER,
TIOCL_SELCLEAR and TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT.
TIOCL_SETSEL was previously changed to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, as this IOCTL
let callers change the selection buffer and could be used to simulate
keypresses. These three TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes, however, are safe to
use, as they do not modify the selection buffer.
This fixes a mouse support regression that affected Emacs (invisible mouse
cursor).
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ee3ec63269b43b34e1c90dd8c9743bf8@finder.org
Fixes: 8d1b43f6a6 ("tty: Restrict access to TIOCLINUX' copy-and-paste subcommands")
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110142122.1013222-1-gnoack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
selection.c and vt.c still uses tabs in the kernel-doc. This misrenders the
functions in the output -- sphinx misinterprets the description. So
remove these tabs, incl. those around dashes.
'enum' keyword is needed before enum names. Fix that.
Superfluous \n after the comments are also removed. They are not
completely faulty, but this unifies all the kernel-doc in the files.
Finally fix up the cross references.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc STI console
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-47-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It comes from both paste_selection() and tty_port_default_receive_buf()
as unsigned (int and size_t respectively). Switch to size_t to converge
to that eventually.
Return the count as size_t too (the two callers above expect that).
Switch paste_selection()'s type of 'count' too, so that the returned and
passed type match.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-13-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The tty TIOCL_SETSEL ioctl allocates a memory buffer big enough for text
selection area. The maximum allowed console size is
VC_RESIZE_MAXCOL * VC_RESIZE_MAXROW == 32767*32767 == ~1GB and typical
MAX_ORDER is set to allow allocations lot less than than (circa 16MB).
So it is quite possible to trigger huge allocation (and syzkaller just
did that) which is going to fail (which is fine) with a backtrace in
mm/page_alloc.c at WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN)) and
this may trigger panic (if panic_on_warn is enabled) and
leak kernel addresses to dmesg.
This passes __GFP_NOWARN to kmalloc_array to avoid unnecessary user-
triggered WARN_ON. Note that the error is not ignored and
the warning is still printed.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617070444.116704-1-aik@ozlabs.ru
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Handle these actions:
* poking console
* TIOCL_SELCLEAR
* TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT
* start/end precomputation
* clear_selection if the console changed
in a separate function, thus making __set_selection_kernel way shorter
and more readable. The function still needs dissection, but we are
approaching.
This includes introduction of vc_selection and renaming
__set_selection_kernel to vc_do_selection.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200415093608.10348-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We need the vt fixes in here and it resolves a merge issue with
drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Move all the selection global variables to a structure vc_selection,
instantiated as vc_sel. This helps to group all the variables together
and see what should be protected by the embedded lock too.
It might be used later also for per-console selection support.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200219073951.16151-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
use_unicode needs not be global. It is used only in set_selection_kernel
and sel_pos (a callee). It is also always set there prior calling
sel_pos. So make use_unicode local and rename it to plain shorter
"unicode". Finally, propagate it to sel_pos via parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200219073951.16151-4-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
multiplier and mode are not actually needed:
* multiplier is used only in kmalloc_array, so use "use_unicode ? 4 : 1"
directly
* mode is used only to assign a bool in this manner:
if (cond)
x = true;
else
x = false;
So do "x = cond" directly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200219073951.16151-3-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
