TTY: ttyprintk, unregister tty driver on failure
When the tty_printk driver fails to create a node in sysfs, the system crashes. It is because the driver registers a tty driver and frees it without deregistering it first. The fix is easy: add a call to tty_unregister_driver to the fail path. This is very unlikely to happen in usual environment => no need for stable. The crash occurs at some place where we iterate over tty drivers first. It may look like this: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffff84 IP: [<ffffffff81278d56>] tty_open+0xd6/0x650 PGD 1a0d067 PUD 1a0e067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU 0 Pid: 1183, comm: boot.localnet Tainted: G W 3.5.0-rc7-next-20120716+ #369 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81278d56>] [<ffffffff81278d56>] tty_open+0xd6/0x650 RSP: 0018:ffff8800162b3b98 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880016ba6200 RCX: 0000000000002208 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: ffffffff81a35080 RBP: ffff8800162b3c08 R08: ffffffff81276f42 R09: 0000000000400040 R10: ffff8800161dc005 R11: ffff8800188ee048 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffffffffffff58 R14: 0000000000400040 R15: 0000000000008000 FS: 00007f3684abd700(0000) GS:ffff880018e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffffffffffff84 CR3: 000000001503e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process boot.localnet (pid: 1183, threadinfo ffff8800162b2000, task ffff8800188c5880) Stack: ffff8800162b3c08 ffffffff81363d63 ffffffff81a62940 ffff8800189b4e88 ffff8800188c5880 ffffffff81123180 0000000000000000 ffffffff18b20600 0000000000000000 ffff8800189b4e88 ffff880016ba6200 ffff880018b20600 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81363d63>] ? kobj_lookup+0x103/0x160 [<ffffffff81123180>] ? mount_fs+0x110/0x110 [<ffffffff81123a9c>] chrdev_open+0x9c/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81123a00>] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30 [<ffffffff8111de76>] do_dentry_open.isra.19+0x1e6/0x270 [<ffffffff8111df65>] finish_open+0x65/0xa0 [<ffffffff8112dc9e>] do_last.isra.52+0x26e/0xd80 [<ffffffff8112b163>] ? inode_permission+0x13/0x50 [<ffffffff8112b203>] ? link_path_walk+0x63/0x940 [<ffffffff8112e85b>] path_openat+0xab/0x3d0 [<ffffffff8112ef5d>] do_filp_open+0x3d/0xa0 [<ffffffff8113ba72>] ? alloc_fd+0xd2/0x120 [<ffffffff8111eee3>] do_sys_open+0xf3/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8111efdc>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20 [<ffffffff815b5fe2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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