patch "tty: fix memory leak in vc_deallocate" added to tty-testing

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

    tty: fix memory leak in vc_deallocate

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-testing 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 be merged to the tty-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

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


>From 211b4d42b70f1c1660feaa968dac0efc2a96ac4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:44:43 +0300
Subject: tty: fix memory leak in vc_deallocate

syzbot reported memory leak in tty/vt.
The problem was in VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl cmd.
After allocating unimap with PIO_UNIMAP it wasn't
freed via VT_DISALLOCATE, but vc_cons[currcons].d was
zeroed.

Reported-by: syzbot+bcc922b19ccc64240b42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210327214443.21548-1-paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index d9366da51e06..01645e87b3d5 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ struct vc_data *vc_deallocate(unsigned int currcons)
 		atomic_notifier_call_chain(&vt_notifier_list, VT_DEALLOCATE, &param);
 		vcs_remove_sysfs(currcons);
 		visual_deinit(vc);
+		con_free_unimap(vc);
 		put_pid(vc->vt_pid);
 		vc_uniscr_set(vc, NULL);
 		kfree(vc->vc_screenbuf);
-- 
2.31.1





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