patch "tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars" added to tty-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:18:28 +0200
Subject: tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars

Size of kmalloc() in vc_do_resize() is controlled by user. Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console. Put a reasonable upper bound on terminal size to prevent WARNINGs.

---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

index ae203c2cd15a..26cda08bc611 100644
@@ -870,6 +870,8 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
 	if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (new_screen_size > (4 << 20))
+		return -EINVAL;
 	newscreen = kmalloc(new_screen_size, GFP_USER);
 	if (!newscreen)
 		return -ENOMEM;

2.10.1