linux-kernel - [PATCH printk v4 36/39] tty: serial: kgdboc: synchronize tty_find_polling_driver() and register

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:35:29 +0106
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH printk v4 36/39] tty: serial: kgdboc: synchronize tty_find_polling_driver() and register_console()

Calling tty_find_polling_driver() can lead to uart_set_options() being
called (via the poll_init() callback of tty_operations) to configure the
uart. But uart_set_options() can also be called by register_console()
(via the setup() callback of console).

Take the console_list_lock to synchronize against register_console() and
also use it for console list traversal. This also ensures the console list
cannot change until the polling console has been chosen.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
index 82b4b4d67823..8c2b7ccdfebf 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
@@ -189,12 +189,20 @@ static int configure_kgdboc(void)
 	if (kgdboc_register_kbd(&cptr))
 		goto do_register;
 
+	/*
+	 * tty_find_polling_driver() can call uart_set_options()
+	 * (via poll_init) to configure the uart. Take the console_list_lock
+	 * in order to synchronize against register_console(), which can also
+	 * configure the uart via uart_set_options(). This also allows safe
+	 * traversal of the console list.
+	 */
+	console_list_lock();
+
 	p = tty_find_polling_driver(cptr, &tty_line);
-	if (!p)
+	if (!p) {
+		console_list_unlock();
 		goto noconfig;
-
-	/* For safe traversal of the console list. */
-	console_list_lock();
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Take console_lock to serialize device() callback with
-- 
2.30.2