From 5c58ceff103d8a654f24769bb1baaf84a841b0cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:12:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tty: make sure to flush any pending work when halting the ldisc When I rewrote tty ldisc code to use proper reference counts (commits 65b770468e98 and cbe9352fa08f) in order to avoid a race with hangup, the test-program that Eric Biederman used to trigger the original problem seems to have exposed another long-standing bug: the hangup code did the 'tty_ldisc_halt()' to stop any buffer flushing activity, but unlike the other call sites it never actually flushed any pending work. As a result, if you get just the right timing, the pending work may be just about to execute (ie the timer has already triggered and thus cancel_delayed_work() was a no-op), when we then re-initialize the ldisc from under it. That, in turn, results in various random problems, usually seen as a NULL pointer dereference in run_timer_softirq() or a BUG() in worker_thread (but it can be almost anything). Fix it by adding the required 'flush_scheduled_work()' after doing the tty_ldisc_halt() (this also requires us to move the ldisc halt to before taking the ldisc mutex in order to avoid a deadlock with the workqueue executing do_tty_hangup, which requires the mutex). The locking should be cleaned up one day (the requirement to do this outside the ldisc_mutex is very annoying, and weakens the lock), but that's a larger and separate undertaking. Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman Tested-by: Xiaotian Feng Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang Tested-by: Dave Young Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c index 1733d3439ad2..e48af9f79219 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c @@ -508,8 +508,9 @@ static void tty_ldisc_restore(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_ldisc *old) * be obtained while the delayed work queue halt ensures that no more * data is fed to the ldisc. * - * In order to wait for any existing references to complete see - * tty_ldisc_wait_idle. + * You need to do a 'flush_scheduled_work()' (outside the ldisc_mutex) + * in order to make sure any currently executing ldisc work is also + * flushed. */ static int tty_ldisc_halt(struct tty_struct *tty) @@ -753,11 +754,14 @@ void tty_ldisc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty) * N_TTY. */ if (tty->driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS) { + /* Make sure the old ldisc is quiescent */ + tty_ldisc_halt(tty); + flush_scheduled_work(); + /* Avoid racing set_ldisc or tty_ldisc_release */ mutex_lock(&tty->ldisc_mutex); if (tty->ldisc) { /* Not yet closed */ /* Switch back to N_TTY */ - tty_ldisc_halt(tty); tty_ldisc_reinit(tty); /* At this point we have a closed ldisc and we want to reopen it. We could defer this to the next open but -- 2.20.1