patch "n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully." added to tty-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully.

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-linus 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 hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

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


>From ebec3f8f5271139df618ebdf8427e24ba102ba94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 09:53:14 +0900
Subject: n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully.

syzbot is reporting stalls at __process_echoes() [1]. This is because
since ldata->echo_commit < ldata->echo_tail becomes true for some reason,
the discard loop is serving as almost infinite loop. This patch tries to
avoid falling into ldata->echo_commit < ldata->echo_tail situation by
making access to echo_* variables more carefully.

Since reset_buffer_flags() is called without output_lock held, it should
not touch echo_* variables. And omit a call to reset_buffer_flags() from
n_tty_open() by using vzalloc().

Since add_echo_byte() is called without output_lock held, it needs memory
barrier between storing into echo_buf[] and incrementing echo_head counter.
echo_buf() needs corresponding memory barrier before reading echo_buf[].
Lack of handling the possibility of not-yet-stored multi-byte operation
might be the reason of falling into ldata->echo_commit < ldata->echo_tail
situation, for if I do WARN_ON(ldata->echo_commit == tail + 1) prior to
echo_buf(ldata, tail + 1), the WARN_ON() fires.

Also, explicitly masking with buffer for the former "while" loop, and
use ldata->echo_commit > tail for the latter "while" loop.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=17f23b094cd80df750e5b0f8982c521ee6bcbf40

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+108696293d7a21ab688f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
index b279f8730e04..431742201709 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static inline unsigned char *read_buf_addr(struct n_tty_data *ldata, size_t i)
 
 static inline unsigned char echo_buf(struct n_tty_data *ldata, size_t i)
 {
+	smp_rmb(); /* Matches smp_wmb() in add_echo_byte(). */
 	return ldata->echo_buf[i & (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - 1)];
 }
 
@@ -318,9 +319,7 @@ static inline void put_tty_queue(unsigned char c, struct n_tty_data *ldata)
 static void reset_buffer_flags(struct n_tty_data *ldata)
 {
 	ldata->read_head = ldata->canon_head = ldata->read_tail = 0;
-	ldata->echo_head = ldata->echo_tail = ldata->echo_commit = 0;
 	ldata->commit_head = 0;
-	ldata->echo_mark = 0;
 	ldata->line_start = 0;
 
 	ldata->erasing = 0;
@@ -619,12 +618,19 @@ static size_t __process_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	old_space = space = tty_write_room(tty);
 
 	tail = ldata->echo_tail;
-	while (ldata->echo_commit != tail) {
+	while (MASK(ldata->echo_commit) != MASK(tail)) {
 		c = echo_buf(ldata, tail);
 		if (c == ECHO_OP_START) {
 			unsigned char op;
 			int no_space_left = 0;
 
+			/*
+			 * Since add_echo_byte() is called without holding
+			 * output_lock, we might see only portion of multi-byte
+			 * operation.
+			 */
+			if (MASK(ldata->echo_commit) == MASK(tail + 1))
+				goto not_yet_stored;
 			/*
 			 * If the buffer byte is the start of a multi-byte
 			 * operation, get the next byte, which is either the
@@ -636,6 +642,8 @@ static size_t __process_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 				unsigned int num_chars, num_bs;
 
 			case ECHO_OP_ERASE_TAB:
+				if (MASK(ldata->echo_commit) == MASK(tail + 2))
+					goto not_yet_stored;
 				num_chars = echo_buf(ldata, tail + 2);
 
 				/*
@@ -730,7 +738,8 @@ static size_t __process_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	/* If the echo buffer is nearly full (so that the possibility exists
 	 * of echo overrun before the next commit), then discard enough
 	 * data at the tail to prevent a subsequent overrun */
-	while (ldata->echo_commit - tail >= ECHO_DISCARD_WATERMARK) {
+	while (ldata->echo_commit > tail &&
+	       ldata->echo_commit - tail >= ECHO_DISCARD_WATERMARK) {
 		if (echo_buf(ldata, tail) == ECHO_OP_START) {
 			if (echo_buf(ldata, tail + 1) == ECHO_OP_ERASE_TAB)
 				tail += 3;
@@ -740,6 +749,7 @@ static size_t __process_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 			tail++;
 	}
 
+ not_yet_stored:
 	ldata->echo_tail = tail;
 	return old_space - space;
 }
@@ -750,6 +760,7 @@ static void commit_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	size_t nr, old, echoed;
 	size_t head;
 
+	mutex_lock(&ldata->output_lock);
 	head = ldata->echo_head;
 	ldata->echo_mark = head;
 	old = ldata->echo_commit - ldata->echo_tail;
@@ -758,10 +769,12 @@ static void commit_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	 * is over the threshold (and try again each time another
 	 * block is accumulated) */
 	nr = head - ldata->echo_tail;
-	if (nr < ECHO_COMMIT_WATERMARK || (nr % ECHO_BLOCK > old % ECHO_BLOCK))
+	if (nr < ECHO_COMMIT_WATERMARK ||
+	    (nr % ECHO_BLOCK > old % ECHO_BLOCK)) {
+		mutex_unlock(&ldata->output_lock);
 		return;
+	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&ldata->output_lock);
 	ldata->echo_commit = head;
 	echoed = __process_echoes(tty);
 	mutex_unlock(&ldata->output_lock);
@@ -812,7 +825,9 @@ static void flush_echoes(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 static inline void add_echo_byte(unsigned char c, struct n_tty_data *ldata)
 {
-	*echo_buf_addr(ldata, ldata->echo_head++) = c;
+	*echo_buf_addr(ldata, ldata->echo_head) = c;
+	smp_wmb(); /* Matches smp_rmb() in echo_buf(). */
+	ldata->echo_head++;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1881,30 +1896,21 @@ static int n_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct n_tty_data *ldata;
 
 	/* Currently a malloc failure here can panic */
-	ldata = vmalloc(sizeof(*ldata));
+	ldata = vzalloc(sizeof(*ldata));
 	if (!ldata)
-		goto err;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ldata->overrun_time = jiffies;
 	mutex_init(&ldata->atomic_read_lock);
 	mutex_init(&ldata->output_lock);
 
 	tty->disc_data = ldata;
-	reset_buffer_flags(tty->disc_data);
-	ldata->column = 0;
-	ldata->canon_column = 0;
-	ldata->num_overrun = 0;
-	ldata->no_room = 0;
-	ldata->lnext = 0;
 	tty->closing = 0;
 	/* indicate buffer work may resume */
 	clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_HALTED, &tty->flags);
 	n_tty_set_termios(tty, NULL);
 	tty_unthrottle(tty);
-
 	return 0;
-err:
-	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
 static inline int input_available_p(struct tty_struct *tty, int poll)
-- 
2.18.0