linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 20/30] tty/serial: atmel: use port->name as name in request

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Message-Id: <20180614132601.102096134@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:05:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 20/30] tty/serial: atmel: use port->name as name in request_irq()

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

commit 9594b5be7ec110ed11acec58fa94f3f293668c85 upstream.

I was puzzled while looking at /proc/interrupts and random things showed
up between reboots. This occurred more often but I realised it later. The
"correct" output should be:
|38:      11861  atmel-aic5   2 Level     ttyS0

but I saw sometimes
|38:       6426  atmel-aic5   2 Level     tty1

and accounted it wrongly as correct. This is use after free and the
former example randomly got the "old" pointer which pointed to the same
content. With SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM and HARDENED I even got
|38:       7067  atmel-aic5   2 Level     E=Started User Manager for UID 0

or other nonsense.
As it turns out the tty, pointer that is accessed in atmel_startup(), is
freed() before atmel_shutdown(). It seems to happen quite often that the
tty for ttyS0 is allocated and freed while ->shutdown is not invoked. I
don't do anything special - just a systemd boot :)

Use dev_name(&pdev->dev) as the IRQ name for request_irq(). This exists
as long as the driver is loaded so no use-after-free here.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 761ed4a94582 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use tty_port_close")
Acked-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1803,7 +1803,6 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_por
 {
 	struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(port->dev);
 	struct atmel_uart_port *atmel_port = to_atmel_uart_port(port);
-	struct tty_struct *tty = port->state->port.tty;
 	int retval;

 	/*
@@ -1818,8 +1817,8 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_por
 	 * Allocate the IRQ
 	 */
 	retval = request_irq(port->irq, atmel_interrupt,
-			IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_COND_SUSPEND,
-			tty ? tty->name : "atmel_serial", port);
+			     IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_COND_SUSPEND,
+			     dev_name(&pdev->dev), port);
 	if (retval) {
 		dev_err(port->dev, "atmel_startup - Can't get irq\n");
 		return retval;