Commit e7f3880c authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Fix recursive deadlock in tty_perform_flush()

tty_perform_flush() can deadlock when called while holding
a line discipline reference. By definition, all ldisc drivers
hold a ldisc reference, so calls originating from ldisc drivers
must not block for a ldisc reference.

The deadlock can occur when:
  CPU 0                    |  CPU 1
                           |
tty_ldisc_ref(tty)         |
....                       | <line discipline halted>
tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty)    |
                           |

CPU 0 cannot progess because it cannot obtain an ldisc reference
with the line discipline has been halted (thus no new references
are granted).
CPU 1 cannot progress because an outstanding ldisc reference
has not been released.

An in-tree call-tree audit of tty_perform_flush() [1] shows 5
ldisc drivers calling tty_perform_flush() indirectly via
n_tty_ioctl_helper() and 2 ldisc drivers calling directly.
A single tty driver safely uses the function.

[1]
Recursive usage:

/* These functions are line discipline ioctls and thus
 * recursive wrt line discipline references */

tty_perform_flush() - ./drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
    n_tty_ioctl_helper()
        hci_uart_tty_ioctl(default) - drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c (N_HCI)
        n_hdlc_tty_ioctl(default) - drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c (N_HDLC)
        gsmld_ioctl(default) - drivers/tty/n_gsm.c (N_GSM0710)
        n_tty_ioctl(default) - drivers/tty/n_tty.c (N_TTY)
        gigaset_tty_ioctl(default) - drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c (N_GIGASET_M101)
    ppp_synctty_ioctl(TCFLSH) - drivers/net/ppp/pps_synctty.c
    ppp_asynctty_ioctl(TCFLSH) - drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c

Non-recursive use:

tty_perform_flush() - drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
    ipw_ioctl(TCFLSH) - drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c
       /* This function is a tty i/o ioctl method, which
        * is invoked by tty_ioctl() */
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent be397116
...@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ ppp_asynctty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, ...@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ ppp_asynctty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
/* flush our buffers and the serial port's buffer */ /* flush our buffers and the serial port's buffer */
if (arg == TCIOFLUSH || arg == TCOFLUSH) if (arg == TCIOFLUSH || arg == TCOFLUSH)
ppp_async_flush_output(ap); ppp_async_flush_output(ap);
err = tty_perform_flush(tty, arg); err = n_tty_ioctl_helper(tty, file, cmd, arg);
break; break;
case FIONREAD: case FIONREAD:
......
...@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ ppp_synctty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, ...@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ ppp_synctty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
/* flush our buffers and the serial port's buffer */ /* flush our buffers and the serial port's buffer */
if (arg == TCIOFLUSH || arg == TCOFLUSH) if (arg == TCIOFLUSH || arg == TCOFLUSH)
ppp_sync_flush_output(ap); ppp_sync_flush_output(ap);
err = tty_perform_flush(tty, arg); err = n_tty_ioctl_helper(tty, file, cmd, arg);
break; break;
case FIONREAD: case FIONREAD:
......
...@@ -1122,14 +1122,12 @@ int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, ...@@ -1122,14 +1122,12 @@ int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_mode_ioctl); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_mode_ioctl);
int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
/* Caller guarantees ldisc reference is held */
static int __tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
{ {
struct tty_ldisc *ld; struct tty_ldisc *ld = tty->ldisc;
int retval = tty_check_change(tty);
if (retval)
return retval;
ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
switch (arg) { switch (arg) {
case TCIFLUSH: case TCIFLUSH:
if (ld && ld->ops->flush_buffer) { if (ld && ld->ops->flush_buffer) {
...@@ -1147,12 +1145,24 @@ int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg) ...@@ -1147,12 +1145,24 @@ int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
tty_driver_flush_buffer(tty); tty_driver_flush_buffer(tty);
break; break;
default: default:
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
return -EINVAL; return -EINVAL;
} }
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
return 0; return 0;
} }
int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg)
{
struct tty_ldisc *ld;
int retval = tty_check_change(tty);
if (retval)
return retval;
ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
retval = __tty_perform_flush(tty, arg);
if (ld)
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
return retval;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_perform_flush); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_perform_flush);
int n_tty_ioctl_helper(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, int n_tty_ioctl_helper(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
...@@ -1191,7 +1201,7 @@ int n_tty_ioctl_helper(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, ...@@ -1191,7 +1201,7 @@ int n_tty_ioctl_helper(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
} }
return 0; return 0;
case TCFLSH: case TCFLSH:
return tty_perform_flush(tty, arg); return __tty_perform_flush(tty, arg);
default: default:
/* Try the mode commands */ /* Try the mode commands */
return tty_mode_ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg); return tty_mode_ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
......
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