Re: [regression] [bisected] commit 6bb6fa6908ebd3cb4e14cd4f0ce272ec885d2eb0 corrupts data sent via pseudoterminal device

[Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@yahoo.com>]

On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 12:03:25 BST, Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
 
> On Tue, 14 May 2024, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 12:28 PM Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's a standard setup for an out-of-the box default install of openSUSE 15.5 with KDE. All tests done in Konsole with bash as shell.
> > >
> > > stty -a -F /dev/pts/1
> > > speed 38400 baud; rows 57; columns 217; line = 0;
> > > intr = ^C; quit = ^; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
> > > -parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
> > > -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel iutf8
> > > opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
> > > isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Yeah. SW flow control is enabled, but I don't see which character is
> > being used for that. Anyway, let's give Ilpo a chance to look into
> > this.
> 
> Thanks a lot for pinpointing the commit with bisect. It turns out this
> is a quite bad corruption bug and I'm quite surprised I didn't see (or
> notice) it while testing the patch.
> 
> Could you please test and confirm the patch below fixes the issue?
> --
> [PATCH] tty: n_tty: Fix buffer offsets when looked ahead is used
> 
> When lookahead has "consumed" some characters (la_count > 0),
> n_tty_receive_buf_standard() and n_tty_receive_buf_closing() for
> characters beyond the la_count are given wrong cp/fp offsets which
> leads to duplicating and losing some characters.
> 
> If la_count > 0, correct buffer pointers and make count consistency too
> (the latter is not strictly necessary to fix the issue but seems more
> logical to adjust all variables immediately to keep state consistent).
> 
> Reported-by: Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@yahoo.com>
> Fixes: 6bb6fa6908eb ("tty: Implement lookahead to process XON/XOFF timely")
> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218834
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
> index f252d0b5a434..5e9ca4376d68 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
> @@ -1619,15 +1619,25 @@ static void __receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty, const u8 *cp, const u8 *fp,
> else if (ldata->raw || (L_EXTPROC(tty) && !preops))
> n_tty_receive_buf_raw(tty, cp, fp, count);
> else if (tty->closing && !L_EXTPROC(tty)) {
> -        if (la_count > 0)
> +        if (la_count > 0) {
> n_tty_receive_buf_closing(tty, cp, fp, la_count, true);
> -        if (count > la_count)
> -            n_tty_receive_buf_closing(tty, cp, fp, count - la_count, false);
> +            cp += la_count;
> +            if (fp)
> +                fp += la_count;
> +            count -= la_count;
> +        }
> +        if (count > 0)
> +            n_tty_receive_buf_closing(tty, cp, fp, count, false);
> } else {
> -        if (la_count > 0)
> +        if (la_count > 0) {
> n_tty_receive_buf_standard(tty, cp, fp, la_count, true);
> -        if (count > la_count)
> -            n_tty_receive_buf_standard(tty, cp, fp, count - la_count, false);
> +            cp += la_count;
> +            if (fp)
> +                fp += la_count;
> +            count -= la_count;
> +        }
> +        if (count > 0)
> +            n_tty_receive_buf_standard(tty, cp, fp, count, false);
> 
> flush_echoes(tty);
> if (tty->ops->flush_chars)
> --
> 2.39.2

Yes, I've tested the patch against the 6.9.0-rc7-local-00012-gdccb07f2914c kernel (last commit 45db3ab70092637967967bfd8e6144017638563c from May 8th) and it works just fine. 

Thank you very much for fixing the problem so quicky.

Kind regards,
Vadym

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