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| author | Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> | 2018-01-23 13:16:34 +0530 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-01-23 08:57:37 +0100 |
| commit | b027e2298bd588d6fa36ed2eda97447fb3eac078 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b90cee88ac74c2828b90b67d67cf7adf6e9e310 /drivers/tty/tty_io.c | |
| parent | 09df0b3464e528c6a4ca2c48d9ff6d2fd7cbd775 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b027e2298bd588d6fa36ed2eda97447fb3eac078.tar.gz | |
tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf
There can be a race, if receive_buf call comes before tty initialization completes in n_tty_open and tty->disc_data may be NULL. CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- 000|n_tty_receive_buf_common() n_tty_open() -001|n_tty_receive_buf2() tty_ldisc_open.isra.3() -002|tty_ldisc_receive_buf(inline) tty_ldisc_setup() Using ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev till disc_data initializes completely. Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_io.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index a6ca634411e1..688bd25aa6b0 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -1323,6 +1323,9 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_init_dev(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx) "%s: %s driver does not set tty->port. This will crash the kernel later. Fix the driver!\n", __func__, tty->driver->name); + retval = tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ); + if (retval) + goto err_release_lock; tty->port->itty = tty; /* @@ -1333,6 +1336,7 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_init_dev(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx) retval = tty_ldisc_setup(tty, tty->link); if (retval) goto err_release_tty; + tty_ldisc_unlock(tty); /* Return the tty locked so that it cannot vanish under the caller */ return tty; @@ -1345,9 +1349,11 @@ err_module_put: /* call the tty release_tty routine to clean out this slot */ err_release_tty: - tty_unlock(tty); + tty_ldisc_unlock(tty); tty_info_ratelimited(tty, "ldisc open failed (%d), clearing slot %d\n", retval, idx); +err_release_lock: + tty_unlock(tty); release_tty(tty, idx); return ERR_PTR(retval); } |