linux-kernel - [31/49] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc

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Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:00:49 -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,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: [31/49] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove, again

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>

commit 320718ee074acce5ffced6506cb51af1388942aa upstream.

I don't claim to understand the tty layer, but it seems like hvc_open and
hvc_close should be balanced in their kref reference counting.

Right now we get a kref every call to hvc_open:

        if (hp->count++ > 0) {
                tty_kref_get(tty); <----- here
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
                hvc_kick();
                return 0;
        } /* else count == 0 */

        tty->driver_data = hp;

        hp->tty = tty_kref_get(tty); <------ or here if hp->count was 0

But hvc_close has:

        tty_kref_get(tty);

        if (--hp->count == 0) {
...
                /* Put the ref obtained in hvc_open() */
                tty_kref_put(tty);
...
        }

        tty_kref_put(tty);

Since the outside kref get/put balance we only do a single kref_put when
count reaches 0.

The patch below changes things to call tty_kref_put once for every
hvc_close call, and with that my machine boots fine.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/char/hvc_console.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -367,16 +367,12 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct
 	hp = tty->driver_data;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags);
-	tty_kref_get(tty);
 
 	if (--hp->count == 0) {
 		/* We are done with the tty pointer now. */
 		hp->tty = NULL;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
 
-		/* Put the ref obtained in hvc_open() */
-		tty_kref_put(tty);
-
 		if (hp->ops->notifier_del)
 			hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data);
 


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