linux-kernel - [PATCH] vt: Fix sleeping functions called from atomic context

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Message-Id: <20211116144937.19035-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:49:37 +0100
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@...il.com>,
        nick black <dankamongmen@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        syzbot+5f47a8cea6a12b77a876@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vt: Fix sleeping functions called from atomic context

Fix two sleeping functions called from atomic context by doing immediate
return to the caller if !preemptible() evaluates 'true'. Remove two
in_interrupt() tests because they are not suited for being used here.

Since functions do_con_write() and con_flush_chars() might sleep in
console_lock(), it must be assured that they are never executed in
atomic contexts.

This issue is reported by Syzbot which notices that they are executed
while holding spinlocks and with interrupts disabled. Actually Syzbot
emits a first report and then, after fixing do_con_write(), a second
report for the same problem in con_flush_chars() because these functions
are called one after the other by con_write().

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+5f47a8cea6a12b77a876@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 7359c3e80d63..508f8a56d361 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -2902,7 +2902,7 @@ static int do_con_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int co
 	struct vt_notifier_param param;
 	bool rescan;
 
-	if (in_interrupt())
+	if (!preemptible())
 		return count;
 
 	console_lock();
@@ -3358,7 +3358,7 @@ static void con_flush_chars(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	struct vc_data *vc;
 
-	if (in_interrupt())	/* from flush_to_ldisc */
+	if (!preemptible())	/* from flush_to_ldisc */
 		return;
 
 	/* if we race with con_close(), vt may be null */
-- 
2.33.1