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    TTY: hvc, fix TTY refcounting · a2f89206
    Jiri Slaby authored
    A -next commit "TTY: HVC, use tty from tty_port" switched the driver
    to use tty_port helper for tty refcounting. But it omitted to remove
    manual tty refcounting from open, close and hangup. So now we are
    getting random crashes caused by use-after-free:
    Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc0000003f9d550
    Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001b7f40
    Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
    ...
    NIP: c0000000001b7f40 LR: c0000000001b7f14 CTR: c0000000000e04f0
    ...
    NIP [c0000000001b7f40] .__kmalloc+0x70/0x230
    LR [c0000000001b7f14] .__kmalloc+0x44/0x230
    Call Trace:
    [c0000003f68bf930] [c0000003f68bf9b0] 0xc0000003f68bf9b0 (unreliable)
    [c0000003f68bf9e0] [c0000000001e5424] .alloc_fdmem+0x24/0x70
    [c0000003f68bfa60] [c0000000001e54f8] .alloc_fdtable+0x88/0x130
    [c0000003f68bfaf0] [c0000000001e5924] .dup_fd+0x384/0x450
    [c0000003f68bfbd0] [c00000000009a310] .copy_process+0x880/0x11d0
    [c0000003f68bfcd0] [c00000000009aee0] .do_fork+0x70/0x400
    [c0000003f68bfdc0] [c0000000000141c4] .sys_clone+0x54/0x70
    [c0000003f68bfe30] [c000000000009aa0] .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
    
    Fix that by complete removal of tty_kref_get/put in open/close/hangup
    paths.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
    Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
    Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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