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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Dmitry Safonov" <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	"Daniel Axtens" <dja@axtens.net>,
	"Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@google.com>,
	"Michael Neuling" <mikey@neuling.org>,
	"Mikulas Patocka" <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	"Nathan March" <nathan@gt.net>, "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>,
	"Peter Hurley" <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	"Sergey Senozhatsky" <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	"Tan Xiaojun" <tanxiaojun@huawei.com>,
	"Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e984d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@suse.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] tty: Hold tty_ldisc_lock() during tty_reopen()
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 10:51:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904015139.GA4251@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180903165257.29227-3-dima@arista.com>

On (09/03/18 17:52), Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # depends on commit b027e2298bd5 ("tty: fix
> data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf")

I believe there's a "Fixes" tag for that

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

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-04  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-03 16:52 [PATCHv2 0/4] tty: Hold write ldisc sem in tty_reopen() Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-03 16:52 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] tty: Drop tty->count on tty_reopen() failure Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-04  8:58   ` Jiri Slaby
2018-09-03 16:52 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] tty: Hold tty_ldisc_lock() during tty_reopen() Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-04  1:51   ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-09-04  6:30     ` Jiri Slaby
2018-09-04  7:06       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-04  9:02   ` Jiri Slaby

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