Re: Q: tty_open() && hangup

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

Hi Oleg,

On 04/15/2016 10:19 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am fingting with obscure pty bug in rhel6 which _might be_ explained
> by some hangup/reopen races, and this motivated me to look at upstream
> code which I can't understand too ;)
> 
> Lets look at tty_open(),
> 
>   2112          tty = tty_open_current_tty(device, filp);
>   2113          if (!tty)
>   2114                  tty = tty_open_by_driver(device, inode, filp);
>   2115
>   2116          if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
>   2117                  tty_free_file(filp);
>   2118                  retval = PTR_ERR(tty);
>   2119                  if (retval != -EAGAIN || signal_pending(current))
>   2120                          return retval;
>   2121                  schedule();
>   2122                  goto retry_open;
> 
> And why do we need this schedule() above? It is nop in TASK_RUNNING.
> 
> If we need it for non-preempt kernels to avoid some sort of livelock
> this can't work if rt_task(current) == T.
> 
> If we just want to add a preemption point then perhaps we should use
> cond_resched/might_resched ?

Yeah, it's just a preemption point that pre-dates cond_resched.


> I am not saying this is wrong, but looks confusing.
> 
>   2130          if (tty->ops->open)
>   2131                  retval = tty->ops->open(tty, filp);
>   2132          else
>   2133                  retval = -ENODEV;
>   2134          filp->f_flags = saved_flags;
>   2135
>   2136          if (retval) {
>   2137                  tty_debug_hangup(tty, "open error %d, releasing\n", retval);
>   2138
>   2139                  tty_unlock(tty); /* need to call tty_release without BTM */
>   2140                  tty_release(inode, filp);
>   2141                  if (retval != -ERESTARTSYS)
>   2142                          return retval;
>   2143
>   2144                  if (signal_pending(current))
>   2145                          return retval;
> 
> So we can only get here if tty->ops->open returns -ERESTARTSYS without
> signal_pending(). This doesn't look good. But OK, lets forget this.

tty_port_block_til_ready() returns -ERESTARTSYS if !ASYNC_HUP_NOTIFY and
tty was hungup or the h/w was reset (eg. while waiting for tty lock).
IOW, parallel hangup() or release() happened at the point where the
tty lock was not held.


>   2147                  schedule();
> 
> Again, this looks confusing.
> 
>   2148                  /*
>   2149                   * Need to reset f_op in case a hangup happened.
>   2150                   */
>   2151                  if (tty_hung_up_p(filp))
>   2152                          filp->f_op = &tty_fops;
> 
> And this is called after tty_add_file() which makes this filp visible to
> __tty_hangup(), and without tty_lock().

tty_release() has removed the filp from the files list already (with the
tty lock held), so if the file operations were reset it's because a
hangup happened when the tty lock was not held (eg. waiting for reopen
or after dropping the lock and reacquiring it in tty_release())


> How can we trust this check? __tty_hangup() can set hung_up_tty_fops()
> right after tty_hung_up_p() returns F.

__tty_hangup() will not have had visibility to this filp after
tty_release().


> Don't we need something like below? Otherwise afaics tty_open() can
> actually succeed (and clear TTY_HUPPED) after restart, but return with
> tty_hung_up_p(filp) == T.

No.

Regards,
Peter Hurley



> --- x/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> +++ x/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> @@ -2122,6 +2122,13 @@ retry_open:
>  		goto retry_open;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * This is only possible after retry_open, we drop tty_lock()
> +	 * without tty_del_file().
> +	 */
> +	if (tty_hung_up_p(filp))
> +		filp->f_op = &tty_fops;
> +
>  	tty_add_file(tty, filp);
>  
>  	check_tty_count(tty, __func__);
> @@ -2145,11 +2152,6 @@ retry_open:
>  			return retval;
>  
>  		schedule();
> -		/*
> -		 * Need to reset f_op in case a hangup happened.
> -		 */
> -		if (tty_hung_up_p(filp))
> -			filp->f_op = &tty_fops;
>  		goto retry_open;
>  	}
>  	clear_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags);
>