From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34216 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755341AbeD3T1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:27:33 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa , syzbot , Michal Hocko , Vegard Nossum , Dmitry Vyukov , Jiri Slaby , Peter Hurley , One Thousand Gnomes , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.14 33/91] tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get() Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:24:15 -0700 Message-Id: <20180430184005.898132642@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180430184004.216234025@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180430184004.216234025@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa commit bcdd0ca8cb8730573afebcaae4138f8f4c8eaa20 upstream. syzbot is reporting crashes triggered by memory allocation fault injection at tty_ldisc_get() [1]. As an attempt to handle OOM in a graceful way, we have tried commit 5362544bebe85071 ("tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"). But we reverted that attempt by commit a8983d01f9b7d600 ("Revert "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"") due to reproducible crash. We should spend resource for finding and fixing race condition bugs rather than complicate error paths for 2 * sizeof(void *) bytes allocation failure. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=489d33fa386453859ead58ff5171d43772b13aa3 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Reported-by: syzbot Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Peter Hurley Cc: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -175,12 +175,11 @@ static struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_get(s return ERR_CAST(ldops); } - ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_ldisc), GFP_KERNEL); - if (ld == NULL) { - put_ldops(ldops); - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - } - + /* + * There is no way to handle allocation failure of only 16 bytes. + * Let's simplify error handling and save more memory. + */ + ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_ldisc), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL); ld->ops = ldops; ld->tty = tty;