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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tty: abort break signalling on hangup
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2026 18:37:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903163736.1499280-1-johan@kernel.org> (raw)

The break ioctls can race with hangup and end up calling into a tty
driver for a device that is already gone or powered down.

Drivers must handle this race, but TCSBRK and TCSBRKP should still be
aborted to avoid calling back into the driver after a user-controlled
timeout (possibly even after the tty has been reopened).

Note that drivers should disable any break state on shutdown so just
return on hangup (calling break_ctl() again is racy and will most likely
fail for drivers handling the race).

Fixes: f34d7a5b7010 ("tty: The big operations rework")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 2.6.26
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---

This is related to the USB serial and serial core fixes I just posted:

	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903163146.1498497-1-johan@kernel.org/
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903163439.1499055-1-johan@kernel.org

Will take a closer look at the other TTY drivers in the coming days.

Johan


 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 include/linux/tty.h  |  1 +
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 48569035da56..1c30faae9ec1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ static void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty, int exit_session)
 
 	tty_ldisc_hangup(tty, cons_filp != NULL);
 
+	wake_up_interruptible(&tty->break_wait);
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&tty->ctrl.lock);
 	clear_bit(TTY_THROTTLED, &tty->flags);
 	clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &tty->flags);
@@ -2431,6 +2433,7 @@ static int tiocgetd(struct tty_struct *tty, int __user *p)
  * send_break - performed time break
  * @tty: device to break on
  * @duration: timeout in mS
+ * @file: file object
  *
  * Perform a timed break on hardware that lacks its own driver level timed
  * break functionality.
@@ -2438,8 +2441,9 @@ static int tiocgetd(struct tty_struct *tty, int __user *p)
  * Locking:
  *	@tty->atomic_write_lock serializes
  */
-static int send_break(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int duration)
+static int send_break(struct file *file, struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int duration)
 {
+	long timeout;
 	int retval;
 
 	if (tty->ops->break_ctl == NULL)
@@ -2453,13 +2457,26 @@ static int send_break(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int duration)
 		return -EINTR;
 
 	retval = tty->ops->break_ctl(tty, -1);
-	if (!retval) {
-		msleep_interruptible(duration);
-		retval = tty->ops->break_ctl(tty, 0);
-	} else if (retval == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
-		/* some drivers can tell only dynamically */
-		retval = 0;
+	if (retval) {
+		if (retval == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
+			/* some drivers can tell only dynamically */
+			retval = 0;
+		}
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
+	timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(duration);
+	timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(tty->break_wait,
+						   tty_hung_up_p(file),
+						   timeout);
+	/* return early on hangup only */
+	if (timeout > 0) {
+		retval = -EIO;
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
+
+	retval = tty->ops->break_ctl(tty, 0);
+out_unlock:
 	tty_write_unlock(tty);
 
 	if (signal_pending(current))
@@ -2727,10 +2744,10 @@ long tty_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		 * This is used by the tcdrain() termios function.
 		 */
 		if (!arg)
-			return send_break(tty, 250);
+			return send_break(file, tty, 250);
 		return 0;
 	case TCSBRKP:	/* support for POSIX tcsendbreak() */
-		return send_break(tty, arg ? arg*100 : 250);
+		return send_break(file, tty, arg ? arg * 100 : 250);
 
 	case TIOCMGET:
 		return tty_tiocmget(tty, p);
@@ -3090,6 +3107,7 @@ struct tty_struct *alloc_tty_struct(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx)
 	init_ldsem(&tty->ldisc_sem);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&tty->write_wait);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&tty->read_wait);
+	init_waitqueue_head(&tty->break_wait);
 	INIT_WORK(&tty->hangup_work, do_tty_hangup);
 	mutex_init(&tty->atomic_write_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&tty->ctrl.lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 0a46e4054dec..ad4e4a835f90 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
 	struct fasync_struct *fasync;
 	wait_queue_head_t write_wait;
 	wait_queue_head_t read_wait;
+	wait_queue_head_t break_wait;
 	struct work_struct hangup_work;
 	void *disc_data;
 	void *driver_data;
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-03 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-03 16:37 Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-09-03 16:50 ` [PATCH] tty: abort break signalling on hangup sashiko-bot
2026-09-03 17:09   ` Johan Hovold

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