vt: clear selection before resizing

When resizing a vt its selection may exceed the new size, resulting in
an invalid memory access [1]. Clear the selection before resizing.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+acDTwy4umEvf5ROBGiRJNrxHN4Cn5szCXE5Jw-d1B=Xw@mail.gmail.com

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 26cda08bc6117ece90a837f26fde19253ac7b0da..8c3bf3d613c061615bbcf15a607f371e9208c67b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
        if (!newscreen)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       if (vc == sel_cons)
+               clear_selection();
+
        old_rows = vc->vc_rows;
        old_row_size = vc->vc_size_row;