linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty: don't crash in tty_init_dev when missing tty

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Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:17:21 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tty: don't crash in tty_init_dev when missing tty_port

We currently warn the user when tty->port is not set in tty_init_dev
yet. The warning says that the kernel will crash later. And it really
will only few lines below at:
tty->port->itty = tty;

So be nice and avoid the crash -- return an error instead. And update
the warning.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index cb6370906a6d..d9f54c7d94f2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1345,9 +1345,12 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_init_dev(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx)
 	if (!tty->port)
 		tty->port = driver->ports[idx];
 
-	WARN_RATELIMIT(!tty->port,
-			"%s: %s driver does not set tty->port. This will crash the kernel later. Fix the driver!\n",
-			__func__, tty->driver->name);
+	if (WARN_RATELIMIT(!tty->port,
+			"%s: %s driver does not set tty->port. This would crash the kernel. Fix the driver!\n",
+			__func__, tty->driver->name)) {
+		retval = -EINVAL;
+		goto err_release_lock;
+	}
 
 	retval = tty_ldisc_lock(tty, 5 * HZ);
 	if (retval)
-- 
2.24.0