On 04/05/2018 10:14, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I was puzzled while looking at /proc/interrupts and random things showed > up between reboots. This occurred more often but I realised it later. The > "correct" output should be: > |38: 11861 atmel-aic5 2 Level ttyS0 > > but I saw sometimes > |38: 6426 atmel-aic5 2 Level tty1 > > and accounted it wrongly as correct. This is use after free and the > former example randomly got the "old" pointer which pointed to the same > content. With SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM and HARDENED I even got > |38: 7067 atmel-aic5 2 Level E=Started User Manager for UID 0 > > or other nonsense. > As it turns out the tty, pointer that is accessed in atmel_startup(), is > freed() before atmel_shutdown(). It seems to happen quite often that the > tty for ttyS0 is allocated and freed while ->shutdown is not invoked. I > don't do anything special - just a systemd boot :) > > Use port->name as the IRQ name for request_irq(). This exists as long as > the driver is loaded so no use-after-free here. > For backports before v4.12 I suggest to use `"atmel_serial"' instead > `port->name' (that member was introduced in f7048b15900f ("tty: serial_core: > Add name field to uart_port struct"). > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I think it's safer to use: Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14 Because the stable team may miss your comment, and even if they don't, I think it's not their role to adapt the patch to 4.9.x (and test it !) IMHO, the best way is to add # 4.14 and when it's applied on 4.14.x, send a tested backport for 4.9.x Besides that, you can add my: Acked-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> Rob, do you agree with this fix ? > Fixes: 761ed4a94582 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use tty_port_close") > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v1…v2: - Bisected and added a Fixes tag > - added a note for backporters to v4.9 … v4.12 (pointed out by > Richard Genoud) > > drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c > index e287fe8f10fc..d3189816740e 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c > @@ -1757,7 +1757,6 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_port *port) > { > struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(port->dev); > struct atmel_uart_port *atmel_port = to_atmel_uart_port(port); > - struct tty_struct *tty = port->state->port.tty; > int retval; > > /* > @@ -1772,8 +1771,7 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_port *port) > * Allocate the IRQ > */ > retval = request_irq(port->irq, atmel_interrupt, > - IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_COND_SUSPEND, > - tty ? tty->name : "atmel_serial", port); > + IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_COND_SUSPEND, port->name, port); > if (retval) { > dev_err(port->dev, "atmel_startup - Can't get irq\n"); > return retval; > Thanks ! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html