The atomicity violation issue is due to the invalidation of the function
port_has_data()'s check caused by concurrency. Imagine a scenario where a
port that contains data passes the validity check but is simultaneously
assigned a value with no data. This could result in an empty port passing
the validity check, potentially leading to a null pointer dereference
error later in the program, which is inconsistent.
To address this issue, we believe there is a problem with the original
logic. Since the validity check and the read operation were separated, it
could lead to inconsistencies between the data that passes the check and
the data being read. Therefore, we moved the main logic of the
port_has_data function into this function and placed the read operation
within a lock, ensuring that the validity check and read operation are
not separated, thus resolving the problem.
This possible bug is found by an experimental static analysis tool
developed by our team. 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.
Fixes: 203baab8ba31 ("virtio: console: Introduce function to hand off data from host to readers")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Qiu-ji Chen <chenqiuji666@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index de7d720d99fa..5aaf07f71a4c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -656,10 +656,14 @@ static ssize_t fill_readbuf(struct port *port, u8 __user *out_buf,
struct port_buffer *buf;
unsigned long flags;
- if (!out_count || !port_has_data(port))
+ if (!out_count)
return 0;
- buf = port->inbuf;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&port->inbuf_lock, flags);
+ buf = port->inbuf = get_inbuf(port);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->inbuf_lock, flags);
+ if (!buf)
+ return 0;
out_count = min(out_count, buf->len - buf->offset);
if (to_user) {
--
2.34.1
