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fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released
authorQuanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:16:59 +0000 (16:16 +0800)
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:59:19 +0000 (22:59 +0100)
commita1f3058930745d2b938b6b4f5bd9630dc74b26b7
treea8afa1c237bb59ed3087608bcffbbdc10d9d4e04
parent18c4ef4e765a798b47980555ed665d78b71aeadf
fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released

Recently, we discovered the following issue through syzkaller:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fb_mode_is_equal+0x285/0x2f0
Read of size 4 at addr ff11000001b3c69c by task syz.xxx
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xab/0xe0
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x390
 print_report+0xb9/0x280
 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
 fb_mode_is_equal+0x285/0x2f0
 fbcon_mode_deleted+0x129/0x180
 fb_set_var+0xe7f/0x11d0
 do_fb_ioctl+0x6a0/0x750
 fb_ioctl+0xe0/0x140
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x210
 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x9c0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Based on experimentation and analysis, during framebuffer unregistration,
only the memory of fb_info->modelist is freed, without setting the
corresponding fb_display[i]->mode to NULL for the freed modes. This leads
to UAF issues during subsequent accesses. Here's an example of reproduction
steps:
1. With /dev/fb0 already registered in the system, load a kernel module
   to register a new device /dev/fb1;
2. Set fb1's mode to the global fb_display[] array (via FBIOPUT_CON2FBMAP);
3. Switch console from fb to VGA (to allow normal rmmod of the ko);
4. Unload the kernel module, at this point fb1's modelist is freed, leaving
   a wild pointer in fb_display[];
5. Trigger the bug via system calls through fb0 attempting to delete a mode
   from fb0.

Add a check in do_unregister_framebuffer(): if the mode to be freed exists
in fb_display[], set the corresponding mode pointer to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
include/linux/fbcon.h