Patch "tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tty-fix-data-race-between-tty_init_dev-and-flush-of-buf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b027e2298bd588d6fa36ed2eda97447fb3eac078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:16:34 +0530
Subject: tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf

From: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>

commit b027e2298bd588d6fa36ed2eda97447fb3eac078 upstream.

There can be a race, if receive_buf call comes before
tty initialization completes in n_tty_open and tty->disc_data
may be NULL.

CPU0					CPU1
----					----
 000|n_tty_receive_buf_common()   	n_tty_open()
-001|n_tty_receive_buf2()		tty_ldisc_open.isra.3()
-002|tty_ldisc_receive_buf(inline)	tty_ldisc_setup()

Using ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev till disc_data
initializes completely.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c    |    8 +++++++-
 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c |    4 ++--
 include/linux/tty.h     |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1543,6 +1543,9 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_init_dev(struct t
 			"%s: %s driver does not set tty->port. This will crash the kernel later. Fix the driver!\n",
 			__func__, tty->driver->name);
 
+	retval = tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
+	if (retval)
+		goto err_release_lock;
 	tty->port->itty = tty;
 
 	/*
@@ -1553,6 +1556,7 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_init_dev(struct t
 	retval = tty_ldisc_setup(tty, tty->link);
 	if (retval)
 		goto err_release_tty;
+	tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
 	/* Return the tty locked so that it cannot vanish under the caller */
 	return tty;
 
@@ -1565,9 +1569,11 @@ err_module_put:
 
 	/* call the tty release_tty routine to clean out this slot */
 err_release_tty:
-	tty_unlock(tty);
+	tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
 	tty_info_ratelimited(tty, "ldisc open failed (%d), clearing slot %d\n",
 			     retval, idx);
+err_release_lock:
+	tty_unlock(tty);
 	release_tty(tty, idx);
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 }
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static inline void __tty_ldisc_unlock(st
 	ldsem_up_write(&tty->ldisc_sem);
 }
 
-static int tty_ldisc_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long timeout)
+int tty_ldisc_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long timeout)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static int tty_ldisc_lock(struct tty_str
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void tty_ldisc_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty)
+void tty_ldisc_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_HALTED, &tty->flags);
 	__tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tt
 /* tty_io.c */
 extern int __init tty_init(void);
 extern const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty);
+extern int tty_ldisc_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long timeout);
+extern void tty_ldisc_unlock(struct tty_struct *tty);
 #else
 static inline void console_init(void)
 { }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gkohli@codeaurora.org are

queue-4.9/tty-fix-data-race-between-tty_init_dev-and-flush-of-buf.patch