The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 39cdb68c64d84e71a4a717000b6e5de208ee60cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yangxi Xiang <xyangxi5@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:33:22 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer
A memory overlapping copy occurs when deleting a long line. This memory
overlapping copy can cause data corruption when scr_memcpyw is optimized
to memcpy because memcpy does not ensure its behavior if the destination
buffer overlaps with the source buffer. The line buffer is not always
broken, because the memcpy utilizes the hardware acceleration, whose
result is not deterministic.
Fix this problem by using replacing the scr_memcpyw with scr_memmovew.
Fixes: 81732c3b2fed ("tty vt: Fix line garbage in virtual console on command line edition")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yangxi Xiang <xyangxi5@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220628093322.5688-1-xyangxi5@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index f8c87c4d7399..dfc1f4b445f3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static void delete_char(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int nr)
unsigned short *p = (unsigned short *) vc->vc_pos;
vc_uniscr_delete(vc, nr);
- scr_memcpyw(p, p + nr, (vc->vc_cols - vc->state.x - nr) * 2);
+ scr_memmovew(p, p + nr, (vc->vc_cols - vc->state.x - nr) * 2);
scr_memsetw(p + vc->vc_cols - vc->state.x - nr, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
nr * 2);
vc->vc_need_wrap = 0;
