vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write

A KASAN null-ptr-deref was observed in vcs_notifier():

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier+0x98/0x130
Read of size 2 at addr qmp_cmd_name: qmp_capabilities, arguments: {}

The issue is a race condition in vcs_write(). When the console_lock is
temporarily dropped (to copy data from userspace), the vc_data pointer
obtained from vcs_vc() may become stale. After re-acquiring the lock,
vcs_vc() is called again to re-validate the pointer. If the vc has been
deallocated in the meantime, vcs_vc() returns NULL, and the while loop
breaks (with written > 0). However, after the loop, vcs_scr_updated(vc)
is still called with the now-NULL vc pointer, leading to a null pointer
dereference in the notifier chain (vcs_notifier dereferences param->vc).

Fix this by adding a NULL check for vc before calling vcs_scr_updated().

Fixes: 8fb9ea65c9d1 ("vc_screen: reload load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_write() to avoid UAF")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604060734.2914976-1-yiyang13@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
index 4d2d46c95fefd2c0eb76ef136647ba5125087fd4..7d40eacc21b3e86dc07321341d93d466f96dfe7b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
        }
        *ppos += written;
        ret = written;
-       if (written)
+       if (written && vc)
                vcs_scr_updated(vc);
 
        return ret;