This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: core: Fix atomicity violation in uart_tiocmget
to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
serial-core-fix-atomicity-violation-in-uart_tiocmget.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 30926783a46841c2d1bbf3f74067ba85d304fd0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gui-Dong Han <2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:36:24 +0800
Subject: serial: core: Fix atomicity violation in uart_tiocmget
From: Gui-Dong Han <2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 30926783a46841c2d1bbf3f74067ba85d304fd0d upstream.
In uart_tiocmget():
result = uport->mctrl;
uart_port_lock_irq(uport);
result |= uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport);
uart_port_unlock_irq(uport);
...
return result;
In uart_update_mctrl():
uart_port_lock_irqsave(port, &flags);
...
port->mctrl = (old & ~clear) | set;
...
port->ops->set_mctrl(port, port->mctrl);
...
uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(port, flags);
An atomicity violation is identified due to the concurrent execution of
uart_tiocmget() and uart_update_mctrl(). After assigning
result = uport->mctrl, the mctrl value may change in uart_update_mctrl(),
leading to a mismatch between the value returned by
uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport) and the mctrl value previously read.
This can result in uart_tiocmget() returning an incorrect value.
This possible bug is found by an experimental static analysis tool
developed by our team, BassCheck[1]. This tool analyzes the locking APIs
to extract function pairs that can be concurrently executed, and then
analyzes the instructions in the paired functions to identify possible
concurrency bugs including data races and atomicity violations. The above
possible bug is reported when our tool analyzes the source code of
Linux 5.17.
To address this issue, it is suggested to move the line
result = uport->mctrl inside the uart_port_lock block to ensure atomicity
and prevent the mctrl value from being altered during the execution of
uart_tiocmget(). With this patch applied, our tool no longer reports the
bug, with the kernel configuration allyesconfig for x86_64. Due to the
absence of the requisite hardware, we are unable to conduct runtime
testing of the patch. Therefore, our verification is solely based on code
logic analysis.
[1] https://sites.google.com/view/basscheck/
Fixes: c5f4644e6c8b ("[PATCH] Serial: Adjust serial locking")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240112113624.17048-1-2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1085,8 +1085,8 @@ static int uart_tiocmget(struct tty_stru
goto out;
if (!tty_io_error(tty)) {
- result = uport->mctrl;
uart_port_lock_irq(uport);
+ result = uport->mctrl;
result |= uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport);
uart_port_unlock_irq(uport);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 2045gemini@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.7/serial-core-fix-atomicity-violation-in-uart_tiocmget.patch
