Re: [PATCH] tty: fix data race in n_tty_receive_buf_common

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Hi Alan,

Sorry correcting the typo here:
+retval =  tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
+if (retval)
+         goto err_release_lock;
tty->port->itty = tty;
/*
* Structures all installed ... call the ldisc open routines.
* If we fail here just call release_tty to clean up.  No need
* to decrement the use counts, as release_tty doesn't care.
*/
retval = tty_ldisc_setup(tty, tty->link);
        if (retval)
            goto err_release_tty;
tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
err_release_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);
+tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
+return ERR_PTR(retval);

On 1/6/2018 1:44 AM, Kohli, Gaurav wrote:
Hi Alan,


On 1/5/2018 7:45 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
But in above case , there we can hit another race, if we have a sequence
like this
tty_init_dev->alloc_tty_struct -> tty_ldisc_init -> this will initialize
ldisc ,
but at this moment disc_data is still NULL

And if flush_to_ldisc comes in between, it will take ldisc reference and
proceeds receive buffer.
So you need to move the lock up one line to protect the assignment to
tty->port->itty. We can do that.

At that point your flush_to_ldisc should see either port->itty = NULL or a
valid initialized ldisc.



Yes , with little modification this should work.

+retval =  tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
+if (retval)
+         goto err_release_lock;
tty->port->itty = tty;
/*
* Structures all installed ... call the ldisc open routines.
* If we fail here just call release_tty to clean up.  No need
* to decrement the use counts, as release_tty doesn't care.
*/
retval = tty_ldisc_setup(tty, tty->link);
        if (retval)
            goto err_release_tty;
tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
err_release_tty:
tty_unlock(tty);
tty_info_ratelimited(tty, "ldisc open failed (%d), clearing slot %d\n",
    retval, idx);
    release_tty(tty, idx);
    return ERR_PTR(retval);

+err_release_lock;
+tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
+return ERR_PTR(retval);

Please let me know if above modification seems fine , then we can upload this and try reproduction of Bug.

Regards
Gaurav


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