Patch "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()

to the 4.9-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:
     tty-don-t-panic-on-oom-in-tty_set_ldisc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017
From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:55:19 +0100
Subject: tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()

From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 5362544bebe85071188dd9e479b5a5040841c895 ]

If tty_ldisc_open() fails in tty_set_ldisc(), it tries to go back
to the old discipline or N_TTY. But that can fail as well, in such
case it panics. This is not a graceful way to handle OOM.

Leave ldisc==NULL if all attempts fail instead.
Also use existing tty_ldisc_reinit() helper function instead of
tty_ldisc_restore(). Also don't WARN/BUG in tty_ldisc_reinit()
if N_TTY fails, which would have the same net effect of bringing
kernel down on OOM. Instead print a single line message about
what has happened.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c |   85 +++++++++---------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -489,41 +489,6 @@ static void tty_ldisc_close(struct tty_s
 }
 
 /**
- *	tty_ldisc_restore	-	helper for tty ldisc change
- *	@tty: tty to recover
- *	@old: previous ldisc
- *
- *	Restore the previous line discipline or N_TTY when a line discipline
- *	change fails due to an open error
- */
-
-static void tty_ldisc_restore(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_ldisc *old)
-{
-	struct tty_ldisc *new_ldisc;
-	int r;
-
-	/* There is an outstanding reference here so this is safe */
-	old = tty_ldisc_get(tty, old->ops->num);
-	WARN_ON(IS_ERR(old));
-	tty->ldisc = old;
-	tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, old->ops->num);
-	if (tty_ldisc_open(tty, old) < 0) {
-		tty_ldisc_put(old);
-		/* This driver is always present */
-		new_ldisc = tty_ldisc_get(tty, N_TTY);
-		if (IS_ERR(new_ldisc))
-			panic("n_tty: get");
-		tty->ldisc = new_ldisc;
-		tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, N_TTY);
-		r = tty_ldisc_open(tty, new_ldisc);
-		if (r < 0)
-			panic("Couldn't open N_TTY ldisc for "
-			      "%s --- error %d.",
-			      tty_name(tty), r);
-	}
-}
-
-/**
  *	tty_set_ldisc		-	set line discipline
  *	@tty: the terminal to set
  *	@ldisc: the line discipline
@@ -536,12 +501,7 @@ static void tty_ldisc_restore(struct tty
 
 int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int disc)
 {
-	int retval;
-	struct tty_ldisc *old_ldisc, *new_ldisc;
-
-	new_ldisc = tty_ldisc_get(tty, disc);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_ldisc))
-		return PTR_ERR(new_ldisc);
+	int retval, old_disc;
 
 	tty_lock(tty);
 	retval = tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
@@ -554,7 +514,8 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty
 	}
 
 	/* Check the no-op case */
-	if (tty->ldisc->ops->num == disc)
+	old_disc = tty->ldisc->ops->num;
+	if (old_disc == disc)
 		goto out;
 
 	if (test_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags)) {
@@ -563,34 +524,25 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	old_ldisc = tty->ldisc;
-
-	/* Shutdown the old discipline. */
-	tty_ldisc_close(tty, old_ldisc);
-
-	/* Now set up the new line discipline. */
-	tty->ldisc = new_ldisc;
-	tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, disc);
-
-	retval = tty_ldisc_open(tty, new_ldisc);
+	retval = tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, disc);
 	if (retval < 0) {
 		/* Back to the old one or N_TTY if we can't */
-		tty_ldisc_put(new_ldisc);
-		tty_ldisc_restore(tty, old_ldisc);
+		if (tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, old_disc) < 0) {
+			pr_err("tty: TIOCSETD failed, reinitializing N_TTY\n");
+			if (tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, N_TTY) < 0) {
+				/* At this point we have tty->ldisc == NULL. */
+				pr_err("tty: reinitializing N_TTY failed\n");
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
-	if (tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_ldisc->ops->num && tty->ops->set_ldisc) {
+	if (tty->ldisc && tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_disc &&
+	    tty->ops->set_ldisc) {
 		down_read(&tty->termios_rwsem);
 		tty->ops->set_ldisc(tty);
 		up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem);
 	}
 
-	/* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a
-	   reference to the old ldisc, or we hold two references to
-	   the old ldisc (if it was restored as part of error cleanup
-	   above). In either case, releasing a single reference from
-	   the old ldisc is correct. */
-	new_ldisc = old_ldisc;
 out:
 	tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
 
@@ -598,7 +550,6 @@ out:
 	   already running */
 	tty_buffer_restart_work(tty->port);
 err:
-	tty_ldisc_put(new_ldisc);	/* drop the extra reference */
 	tty_unlock(tty);
 	return retval;
 }
@@ -659,10 +610,8 @@ int tty_ldisc_reinit(struct tty_struct *
 	int retval;
 
 	ld = tty_ldisc_get(tty, disc);
-	if (IS_ERR(ld)) {
-		BUG_ON(disc == N_TTY);
+	if (IS_ERR(ld))
 		return PTR_ERR(ld);
-	}
 
 	if (tty->ldisc) {
 		tty_ldisc_close(tty, tty->ldisc);
@@ -674,10 +623,8 @@ int tty_ldisc_reinit(struct tty_struct *
 	tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, disc);
 	retval = tty_ldisc_open(tty, tty->ldisc);
 	if (retval) {
-		if (!WARN_ON(disc == N_TTY)) {
-			tty_ldisc_put(tty->ldisc);
-			tty->ldisc = NULL;
-		}
+		tty_ldisc_put(tty->ldisc);
+		tty->ldisc = NULL;
 	}
 	return retval;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dvyukov@google.com are

queue-4.9/tty-fix-data-race-in-tty_ldisc_ref_wait.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-do-not-warn-when-msr-bitmap-address-is-not-backed.patch
queue-4.9/userfaultfd-shmem-__do_fault-requires-vm_fault_nopage.patch
queue-4.9/tty-don-t-panic-on-oom-in-tty_set_ldisc.patch