Patch "n_tty: signal and flush atomically" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    n_tty: signal and flush atomically

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     n_tty-signal-and-flush-atomically.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3b19e032295647b7be2aa3be62510db4aaeda759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:21:32 -0400
Subject: n_tty: signal and flush atomically

From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>

commit 3b19e032295647b7be2aa3be62510db4aaeda759 upstream.

When handling signalling char, claim the termios write lock before
signalling waiting readers and writers to prevent further i/o
before flushing the echo and output buffers. This prevents a
userspace signal handler which may output from racing the terminal
flush.

Reference: Bugzilla #99351 ("Output truncated in ssh session after...")
Fixes: commit d2b6f44779d3 ("n_tty: Fix signal handling flushes")
Reported-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/n_tty.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -1108,19 +1108,29 @@ static void eraser(unsigned char c, stru
  *	Locking: ctrl_lock
  */
 
-static void isig(int sig, struct tty_struct *tty)
+static void __isig(int sig, struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-	struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data;
 	struct pid *tty_pgrp = tty_get_pgrp(tty);
 	if (tty_pgrp) {
 		kill_pgrp(tty_pgrp, sig, 1);
 		put_pid(tty_pgrp);
 	}
+}
+
+static void isig(int sig, struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data;
 
-	if (!L_NOFLSH(tty)) {
+	if (L_NOFLSH(tty)) {
+		/* signal only */
+		__isig(sig, tty);
+
+	} else { /* signal and flush */
 		up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem);
 		down_write(&tty->termios_rwsem);
 
+		__isig(sig, tty);
+
 		/* clear echo buffer */
 		mutex_lock(&ldata->output_lock);
 		ldata->echo_head = ldata->echo_tail = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter@hurleysoftware.com are

queue-4.1/serial-core-fix-crashes-while-echoing-when-closing.patch
queue-4.1/n_tty-signal-and-flush-atomically.patch