[PATCHv3 3/6] tty: Hold tty_ldisc_lock() during tty_reopen()

Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-11T01:48:33Z

tty_ldisc_reinit() doesn't race with neither tty_ldisc_hangup()
nor set_ldisc() nor tty_ldisc_release() as they use tty lock.
But it races with anyone who expects line discipline to be the same
after hoding read semaphore in tty_ldisc_ref().

We've seen the following crash on v4.9.108 stable:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000002260
IP: [..] n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x5f/0x86d
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
Call Trace:
[..] n_tty_receive_buf2
[..] tty_ldisc_receive_buf
[..] flush_to_ldisc
[..] process_one_work
[..] worker_thread
[..] kthread
[..] ret_from_fork

tty_ldisc_reinit() should be called with ldisc_sem hold for writing,
which will protect any reader against line discipline changes.

Backport-first: b027e2298bd5 ("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev
and flush of buf")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e984d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 5e5da9acaf0a..a947719b4626 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ static void tty_driver_remove_tty(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *
static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
- int retval;
+ int retval = 0;

if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
@@ -1267,15 +1267,18 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
if (test_bit(TTY_EXCLUSIVE, &tty->flags) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EBUSY;

- tty->count++;
+ tty_ldisc_lock(tty, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);

+ tty->count++;
if (tty->ldisc)
- return 0;
+ goto out_unlock;

retval = tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, tty->termios.c_line);
if (retval)
tty->count--;

+out_unlock:
+ tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
return retval;
}

--
2.13.6