This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tty: fix crash in release_tty if tty->port is not set
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 4466d6d2f80c1193e0845d110277c56da77a6418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Reichl <hias@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 13:34:32 +0100
Subject: tty: fix crash in release_tty if tty->port is not set
Commit 2ae0b31e0face ("tty: don't crash in tty_init_dev when missing
tty_port") didn't fully prevent the crash as the cleanup path in
tty_init_dev() calls release_tty() which dereferences tty->port
without checking it for non-null.
Add tty->port checks to release_tty to avoid the kernel crash.
Fixes: 2ae0b31e0face ("tty: don't crash in tty_init_dev when missing tty_port")
Signed-off-by: Matthias Reichl <hias@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201105123432.4448-1-hias@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 7a4c02548fb3..9f8b9a567b35 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1515,10 +1515,12 @@ static void release_tty(struct tty_struct *tty, int idx)
tty->ops->shutdown(tty);
tty_save_termios(tty);
tty_driver_remove_tty(tty->driver, tty);
- tty->port->itty = NULL;
+ if (tty->port)
+ tty->port->itty = NULL;
if (tty->link)
tty->link->port->itty = NULL;
- tty_buffer_cancel_work(tty->port);
+ if (tty->port)
+ tty_buffer_cancel_work(tty->port);
if (tty->link)
tty_buffer_cancel_work(tty->link->port);
--
2.29.2
