[SRU B/C] [PATCH 2/4] tty: Hold tty_ldisc_lock() during tty_reopen()

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli at canonical.com
Tue Jan 8 20:28:09 UTC 2019


From: Dmitry Safonov <dima at arista.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791758

tty_ldisc_reinit() doesn't race with neither tty_ldisc_hangup()
nor set_ldisc() nor tty_ldisc_release() as they use tty lock.
But it races with anyone who expects line discipline to be the same
after hoding read semaphore in tty_ldisc_ref().

We've seen the following crash on v4.9.108 stable:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000002260
IP: [..] n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x5f/0x86d
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
Call Trace:
 [..] n_tty_receive_buf2
 [..] tty_ldisc_receive_buf
 [..] flush_to_ldisc
 [..] process_one_work
 [..] worker_thread
 [..] kthread
 [..] ret_from_fork

tty_ldisc_reinit() should be called with ldisc_sem hold for writing,
which will protect any reader against line discipline changes.

Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # b027e2298bd5 ("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf")
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
Reported-by: syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e984d at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima at arista.com>
Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho at tycho.ws>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry-picked from 83d817f41070c48bc3eb7ec18e43000a548fca5c upstream)
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 67e2ea4e7f1d..83e57a328f2b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1267,15 +1267,20 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	if (test_bit(TTY_EXCLUSIVE, &tty->flags) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	tty->count++;
+	retval = tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
+	if (retval)
+		return retval;
 
+	tty->count++;
 	if (tty->ldisc)
-		return 0;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	retval = tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, tty->termios.c_line);
 	if (retval)
 		tty->count--;
 
+out_unlock:
+	tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
2.19.2




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