On 4/4/23 14:36, Daniel Vetter wrote: > There's a few reasons the kernel should not spam dmesg on bad > userspace ioctl input: > - at warning level it results in CI false positives > - it allows userspace to drown dmesg output, potentially hiding real > issues. > > None of the other generic EINVAL checks report in the > FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl do this, so it's also inconsistent. > > I guess the intent of the patch which introduced this warning was that > the drivers ->fb_check_var routine should fail in that case. Reality > is that there's too many fbdev drivers and not enough people > maintaining them by far, and so over the past few years we've simply > handled all these validation gaps by tighning the checks in the core, > because that's realistically really all that will ever happen. > > Reported-by: syzbot+20dcf81733d43ddff...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > Link: > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c5faf983bfa4a607de530cd3bb008888bf06cefc > Fixes: 6c11df58fd1a ("fbmem: Check virtual screen sizes in fb_set_var()") > Cc: Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+ > Cc: Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> > --- > drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c > b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c > index 875541ff185b..9757f4bcdf57 100644 > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c > @@ -1021,10 +1021,6 @@ fb_set_var(struct fb_info *info, struct > fb_var_screeninfo *var) > /* verify that virtual resolution >= physical resolution */ > if (var->xres_virtual < var->xres || > var->yres_virtual < var->yres) { > - pr_warn("WARNING: fbcon: Driver '%s' missed to adjust virtual > screen size (%ux%u vs. %ux%u)\n", > - info->fix.id, > - var->xres_virtual, var->yres_virtual, > - var->xres, var->yres); > return -EINVAL; > } >
Make it pr_warn_once? 99.9...% of the benefit, without spam. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and Xwayland developer
