Re: [PATCH] tty: Correct tty buffer flush.

[Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>]

On 03.12.2012 13:54, Ilya Zykov wrote:
>   The root of problem is carelessly zeroing pointer(in function __tty_buffer_flush()),
> when another thread can use it. It can be cause of "NULL pointer dereference".
>   Main idea of the patch, this is never release last (struct tty_buffer) in the active buffer.
> Only flush data for ldisc(tty->buf.head->read = tty->buf.head->commit).
> At that moment driver can collect(write) data in buffer without conflict.
> It is repeat behavior of flush_to_ldisc(), only without feeding data to ldisc.
> Test program and bug report you can see:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/29/368
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
> index 6c9b7cd..4f02f9c 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
> @@ -114,11 +114,14 @@ static void __tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty)
>  {
>  	struct tty_buffer *thead;
>  
> -	while ((thead = tty->buf.head) != NULL) {
> -		tty->buf.head = thead->next;
> -		tty_buffer_free(tty, thead);
> +	if (tty->buf.head == NULL)
> +		return;
> +	while ((thead = tty->buf.head->next) != NULL) {
> +		tty_buffer_free(tty, tty->buf.head);
> +		tty->buf.head = thead;
>  	}
> -	tty->buf.tail = NULL;
> +	WARN_ON(tty->buf.head != tty->buf.tail);
> +	tty->buf.head->read = tty->buf.head->commit;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> 

You can include this patch, in 3.2 series , for improve stability,
it would be merged in upstream 3.9-rc1.

Thank you.
Ilya.


https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c?id=64325a3be08d364a62ee8f84b2cf86934bc2544a