4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e144c58cad6667876173dd76977e9e6557e34941 upstream. While closing, new rx data may be received after the input buffers have been flushed but before stop_rx() halts receiving [1]. The new data might not be processed by flush_to_ldisc() until after uart_shutdown() and normal input processing is re-enabled (ie., tty->closing = 0). The race is outlined below: CPU 0 | CPU 1 | uart_close() | tty_port_close_start() | tty->closing = 1 | tty_ldisc_flush() | | => IRQ | while (LSR & data ready) | uart_insert_char() | tty_flip_buffer_push() | <= EOI stop_rx() | . uart_shutdown() | . free xmit.buf | . tty_port_tty_set(NULL) | . tty->closing = 0 | . | flush_to_ldisc() | n_tty_receive_buf_common() | __receive_buf() | ... | commit_echoes() | uart_flush_chars() | __uart_start() | ** OOPS on port.tty deref ** tty_ldisc_flush() | Input processing must be prevented from echoing (tty->closing = 1) until _after_ the input buffers have been flushed again at the end of uart_close(). [1] In fact, some input may actually be buffered _after_ stop_rx() since the rx interrupt may have already triggered but not yet been handled when stop_rx() disables rx interrupts. Fixes: 2e758910832d ("serial: core: Flush ldisc after dropping port mutex in uart_close()") Reported-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static void uart_close(struct tty_struct mutex_lock(&port->mutex); uart_shutdown(tty, state); tty_port_tty_set(port, NULL); - tty->closing = 0; + spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); if (port->blocked_open) { @@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ static void uart_close(struct tty_struct mutex_unlock(&port->mutex); tty_ldisc_flush(tty); + tty->closing = 0; } static void uart_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tty, int timeout) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html