linux-kernel - [140/289] TTY: open/hangup race fixup

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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:58:37 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [140/289] TTY: open/hangup race fixup

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>

commit acfa747baf73922021a047f2d87a2d866f5dbab5 upstream.

Like in the "TTY: don't allow reopen when ldisc is changing" patch,
this one fixes a TTY WARNING as described in the option 1) there:
1) __tty_hangup from tty_ldisc_hangup to tty_ldisc_enable. During this
section tty_lock is held. However tty_lock is temporarily dropped in
the middle of the function by tty_ldisc_hangup.

The fix is to introduce a new flag which we set during the unlocked
window and check it in tty_reopen too. The flag is TTY_HUPPING and is
cleared after TTY_HUPPED is set.

While at it, remove duplicate TTY_HUPPED set_bit. The one after
calling ops->hangup seems to be more correct. But anyway, we hold
tty_lock, so there should be no difference.

Also document the function it does that kind of crap.

Nicely reproducible with two forked children:
static void do_work(const char *tty)
{
	if (signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR) exit(1);
	setsid();
	while (1) {
		int fd = open(tty, O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY);
		if (fd < 0) continue;
		if (ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY)) continue;
		if (vhangup()) continue;
		close(fd);
	}
	exit(0);
}

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Reported-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Reported-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/char/tty_io.c |   10 +++++++++-
 include/linux/tty.h   |    1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -553,6 +553,9 @@ void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty
 
 	tty_lock();
 
+	/* some functions below drop BTM, so we need this bit */
+	set_bit(TTY_HUPPING, &tty->flags);
+
 	/* inuse_filps is protected by the single tty lock,
 	   this really needs to change if we want to flush the
 	   workqueue with the lock held */
@@ -572,6 +575,10 @@ void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&tty_files_lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * it drops BTM and thus races with reopen
+	 * we protect the race by TTY_HUPPING
+	 */
 	tty_ldisc_hangup(tty);
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -609,7 +616,6 @@ void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty
 	tty->session = NULL;
 	tty->pgrp = NULL;
 	tty->ctrl_status = 0;
-	set_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->ctrl_lock, flags);
 
 	/* Account for the p->signal references we killed */
@@ -635,6 +641,7 @@ void __tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty
 	 * can't yet guarantee all that.
 	 */
 	set_bit(TTY_HUPPED, &tty->flags);
+	clear_bit(TTY_HUPPING, &tty->flags);
 	tty_ldisc_enable(tty);
 
 	tty_unlock();
@@ -1305,6 +1312,7 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct
 	struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
 
 	if (test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags) ||
+			test_bit(TTY_HUPPING, &tty->flags) ||
 			test_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags))
 		return -EIO;
 
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ struct tty_file_private {
 #define TTY_HUPPED 		18	/* Post driver->hangup() */
 #define TTY_FLUSHING		19	/* Flushing to ldisc in progress */
 #define TTY_FLUSHPENDING	20	/* Queued buffer flush pending */
+#define TTY_HUPPING 		21	/* ->hangup() in progress */
 
 #define TTY_WRITE_FLUSH(tty) tty_write_flush((tty))
 


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