tty: avoid using vfs_iocb_iter_write() for redirected console writes
It turns out that the vfs_iocb_iter_{read,write}() functions are entirely broken, and don't actually use the passed-in file pointer for IO - only for the preparatory work (permission checking and for the write_iter function lookup). That worked fine for overlayfs, which always builds the new iocb with the same file pointer that it passes in, but in the general case it ends up doing nonsensical things (and could cause an iterator call that doesn't even match the passed-in file pointer). This subtly broke the tty conversion to write_iter in commit 9bb48c82 ("tty: implement write_iter"), because the console redirection didn't actually end up redirecting anything, since the passed-in file pointer was basically ignored, and the actual write was done with the original non-redirected console tty after all. The main visible effect of this is that the console messages were no longer logged to /var/log/boot.log during graphical boot. Fix the issue by simply not using the vfs write "helper" function at all, and just redirecting the write entirely internally to the tty layer. Do the target writability permission checks when actually registering the target tty with TIOCCONS instead of at write time. Fixes: 9bb48c82 ("tty: implement write_iter") Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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