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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Joshua Rogers <linux@joshua.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	stable <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: vcc: hold port lock when clearing tty pointer in vcc_cleanup
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:32:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3b571b3-86b3-480b-bde3-dd2e7bead7fb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260731-aisle-tty-vcc-v1-2-962e18beb8a8@linuxfoundation.org>

On 31. 07. 26, 10:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Joshua Rogers <linux@joshua.hu>
> 
> vcc_cleanup() sets port->tty to NULL without holding port->lock, racing
> with vcc_event() LDC callbacks that read port->tty under port->lock and
> then use tty->port. This can cause a use-after-free when the callback
> dereferences tty->port after cleanup has already destroyed and freed it.
> 
> Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers <linux@joshua.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/vcc.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vcc.c b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
> index 3947bd2b75ac..03ed8c692acd 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vcc.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
> @@ -983,10 +983,13 @@ static int vcc_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
>   static void vcc_cleanup(struct tty_struct *tty)
>   {
>   	struct vcc_port *port;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>   
>   	port = vcc_get(tty->index, true);
>   	if (port) {
> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
>   		port->tty = NULL;
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);

For these, I like

scope_guard(spinlock_irqsave, &port->lock)
   port->tty = NULL;

more, as well.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-31  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-31  8:15 [PATCH 0/2] tty: vcc: Some small vcc bugfixes found by code scans Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31  8:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] tty: vcc: zero-initialize control packet in vcc_send_ctl() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31  8:29   ` Jiri Slaby
2026-07-31  8:32     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31  9:16       ` Jiri Slaby
2026-07-31 12:02         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31  8:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] tty: vcc: hold port lock when clearing tty pointer in vcc_cleanup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-31  8:32   ` Jiri Slaby [this message]

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