1. 13 Jan, 2021 12 commits
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  3. 11 Jan, 2021 1 commit
  4. 10 Jan, 2021 4 commits
  5. 09 Jan, 2021 12 commits
    • Hoang Le's avatar
      tipc: fix NULL deref in tipc_link_xmit() · b7741344
      Hoang Le authored
      The buffer list can have zero skb as following path:
      tipc_named_node_up()->tipc_node_xmit()->tipc_link_xmit(), so
      we need to check the list before casting an &sk_buff.
      
      Fault report:
       [] tipc: Bulk publication failure
       [] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical [#1] PREEMPT [...]
       [] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]
       [] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.0-rc4+ #2
       [] Hardware name: Bochs ..., BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
       [] RIP: 0010:tipc_link_xmit+0xc1/0x2180
       [] Code: 24 b8 00 00 00 00 4d 39 ec 4c 0f 44 e8 e8 d7 0a 10 f9 48 [...]
       [] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006ea0 EFLAGS: 00010202
       [] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880224da000 RCX: 1ffff11003d3cc0d
       [] RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: ffffffff886007b9 RDI: 00000000000000c8
       [] RBP: ffffc90000007018 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffff52000000ded
       [] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: fffff52000000dec R12: ffffc90000007148
       [] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc90000007018
       [] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888037400000(0000) knlGS:000[...]
       [] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
       [] CR2: 00007fffd2db5000 CR3: 000000002b08f000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
      
      Fixes: af9b028e ("tipc: make media xmit call outside node spinlock context")
      Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHoang Le <hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108071337.3598-1-hoang.h.le@dektech.com.auSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      b7741344
    • Vadim Fedorenko's avatar
      selftests/tls: fix selftests after adding ChaCha20-Poly1305 · 3502bd9b
      Vadim Fedorenko authored
      TLS selftests where broken because of wrong variable types used.
      Fix it by changing u16 -> uint16_t
      
      Fixes: 4f336e88 ("selftests/tls: add CHACHA20-POLY1305 to tls selftests")
      Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVadim Fedorenko <vfedorenko@novek.ru>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1610141865-7142-1-git-send-email-vfedorenko@novek.ruSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      3502bd9b
    • Aya Levin's avatar
      net: ipv6: Validate GSO SKB before finish IPv6 processing · b210de4f
      Aya Levin authored
      There are cases where GSO segment's length exceeds the egress MTU:
       - Forwarding of a TCP GRO skb, when DF flag is not set.
       - Forwarding of an skb that arrived on a virtualisation interface
         (virtio-net/vhost/tap) with TSO/GSO size set by other network
         stack.
       - Local GSO skb transmitted on an NETIF_F_TSO tunnel stacked over an
         interface with a smaller MTU.
       - Arriving GRO skb (or GSO skb in a virtualised environment) that is
         bridged to a NETIF_F_TSO tunnel stacked over an interface with an
         insufficient MTU.
      
      If so:
       - Consume the SKB and its segments.
       - Issue an ICMP packet with 'Packet Too Big' message containing the
         MTU, allowing the source host to reduce its Path MTU appropriately.
      
      Note: These cases are handled in the same manner in IPv4 output finish.
      This patch aligns the behavior of IPv6 and the one of IPv4.
      
      Fixes: 9e508490 ("netfilter: ipv6: move POSTROUTING invocation before fragmentation")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAya Levin <ayal@nvidia.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1610027418-30438-1-git-send-email-ayal@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      b210de4f
    • Manish Chopra's avatar
      netxen_nic: fix MSI/MSI-x interrupts · a2bc221b
      Manish Chopra authored
      For all PCI functions on the netxen_nic adapter, interrupt
      mode (INTx or MSI) configuration is dependent on what has
      been configured by the PCI function zero in the shared
      interrupt register, as these adapters do not support mixed
      mode interrupts among the functions of a given adapter.
      
      Logic for setting MSI/MSI-x interrupt mode in the shared interrupt
      register based on PCI function id zero check is not appropriate for
      all family of netxen adapters, as for some of the netxen family
      adapters PCI function zero is not really meant to be probed/loaded
      in the host but rather just act as a management function on the device,
      which caused all the other PCI functions on the adapter to always use
      legacy interrupt (INTx) mode instead of choosing MSI/MSI-x interrupt mode.
      
      This patch replaces that check with port number so that for all
      type of adapters driver attempts for MSI/MSI-x interrupt modes.
      
      Fixes: b37eb210 ("netxen_nic: Avoid mixed mode interrupts")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIgor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107101520.6735-1-manishc@marvell.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      a2bc221b
    • Jakub Kicinski's avatar
      Merge branch 'net-fix-issues-around-register_netdevice-failures' · c49243e8
      Jakub Kicinski authored
      Jakub Kicinski says:
      
      ====================
      net: fix issues around register_netdevice() failures
      
      This series attempts to clean up the life cycle of struct
      net_device. Dave has added dev->needs_free_netdev in the
      past to fix double frees, we can lean on that mechanism
      a little more to fix remaining issues with register_netdevice().
      
      This is the next chapter of the saga which already includes:
      commit 0e0eee24 ("net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink()")
      commit e51fb152 ("rtnetlink: fix a memory leak when ->newlink fails")
      commit cf124db5 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.")
      commit 93ee31f1 ("[NET]: Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.")
      commit 814152a8 ("net: fix memleak in register_netdevice()")
      commit 10cc514f ("net: Fix null de-reference of device refcount")
      
      The immediate problem which gets fixed here is that calling
      free_netdev() right after unregister_netdevice() is illegal
      because we need to release rtnl_lock first, to let the
      unregistration finish. Note that unregister_netdevice() is
      just a wrapper of unregister_netdevice_queue(), it only
      does half of the job.
      
      Where this limitation becomes most problematic is in failure
      modes of register_netdevice(). There is a notifier call right
      at the end of it, which lets other subsystems veto the entire
      thing. At which point we should really go through a full
      unregister_netdevice(), but we can't because callers may
      go straight to free_netdev() after the failure, and that's
      no bueno (see the previous paragraph).
      
      This set makes free_netdev() more lenient, when device
      is still being unregistered free_netdev() will simply set
      dev->needs_free_netdev and let the unregister process do
      the freeing.
      
      With the free_netdev() problem out of the way failures in
      register_netdevice() can make use of net_todo, again.
      Users are still expected to call free_netdev() right after
      failure but that will only set dev->needs_free_netdev.
      
      To prevent the pathological case of:
      
       dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
       if (register_netdevice(dev)) {
         rtnl_unlock();
         free_netdev(dev);
       }
      
      make register_netdevice()'s failure clear dev->needs_free_netdev.
      
      Problems described above are only present with register_netdevice() /
      unregister_netdevice(). We have two parallel APIs for registration
      of devices:
       - those called outside rtnl_lock (register_netdev(), and
         unregister_netdev());
       - and those to be used under rtnl_lock - register_netdevice()
         and unregister_netdevice().
      The former is trivial and has no problems. The alternative
      approach to fix the latter would be to also separate the
      freeing functions - i.e. add free_netdevice(). This has been
      implemented (incl. converting all relevant calls in the tree)
      but it feels a little unnecessary to put the burden of choosing
      the right free_netdev{,ice}() call on the programmer when we
      can "just do the right thing" by default.
      ====================
      
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210106184007.1821480-1-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      c49243e8
    • Jakub Kicinski's avatar
      net: make sure devices go through netdev_wait_all_refs · 766b0515
      Jakub Kicinski authored
      If register_netdevice() fails at the very last stage - the
      notifier call - some subsystems may have already seen it and
      grabbed a reference. struct net_device can't be freed right
      away without calling netdev_wait_all_refs().
      
      Now that we have a clean interface in form of dev->needs_free_netdev
      and lenient free_netdev() we can undo what commit 93ee31f1 ("[NET]:
      Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.") has done and complete
      the unregistration path by bringing the net_set_todo() call back.
      
      After registration fails user is still expected to explicitly
      free the net_device, so make sure ->needs_free_netdev is cleared,
      otherwise rolling back the registration will cause the old double
      free for callers who release rtnl_lock before the free.
      
      This also solves the problem of priv_destructor not being called
      on notifier error.
      
      net_set_todo() will be moved back into unregister_netdevice_queue()
      in a follow up.
      Reported-by: default avatarHulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      766b0515
    • Jakub Kicinski's avatar
      net: make free_netdev() more lenient with unregistering devices · c269a24c
      Jakub Kicinski authored
      There are two flavors of handling netdev registration:
       - ones called without holding rtnl_lock: register_netdev() and
         unregister_netdev(); and
       - those called with rtnl_lock held: register_netdevice() and
         unregister_netdevice().
      
      While the semantics of the former are pretty clear, the same can't
      be said about the latter. The netdev_todo mechanism is utilized to
      perform some of the device unregistering tasks and it hooks into
      rtnl_unlock() so the locked variants can't actually finish the work.
      In general free_netdev() does not mix well with locked calls. Most
      drivers operating under rtnl_lock set dev->needs_free_netdev to true
      and expect core to make the free_netdev() call some time later.
      
      The part where this becomes most problematic is error paths. There is
      no way to unwind the state cleanly after a call to register_netdevice(),
      since unreg can't be performed fully without dropping locks.
      
      Make free_netdev() more lenient, and defer the freeing if device
      is being unregistered. This allows error paths to simply call
      free_netdev() both after register_netdevice() failed, and after
      a call to unregister_netdevice() but before dropping rtnl_lock.
      
      Simplify the error paths which are currently doing gymnastics
      around free_netdev() handling.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      c269a24c
    • Jakub Kicinski's avatar
      docs: net: explain struct net_device lifetime · 2b446e65
      Jakub Kicinski authored
      Explain the two basic flows of struct net_device's operation.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      2b446e65
    • Tom Parkin's avatar
      ppp: fix refcount underflow on channel unbridge · c1787ffd
      Tom Parkin authored
      When setting up a channel bridge, ppp_bridge_channels sets the
      pch->bridge field before taking the associated reference on the bridge
      file instance.
      
      This opens up a refcount underflow bug if ppp_bridge_channels called
      via. iotcl runs concurrently with ppp_unbridge_channels executing via.
      file release.
      
      The bug is triggered by ppp_bridge_channels taking the error path
      through the 'err_unset' label.  In this scenario, pch->bridge is set,
      but the reference on the bridged channel will not be taken because
      the function errors out.  If ppp_unbridge_channels observes pch->bridge
      before it is unset by the error path, it will erroneously drop the
      reference on the bridged channel and cause a refcount underflow.
      
      To avoid this, ensure that ppp_bridge_channels holds a reference on
      each channel in advance of setting the bridge pointers.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com>
      Fixes: 4cf476ce ("ppp: add PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN and PPPIOCUNBRIDGECHAN ioctls")
      Acked-by: default avatarGuillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107181315.3128-1-tparkin@katalix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      c1787ffd
    • Baptiste Lepers's avatar
      udp: Prevent reuseport_select_sock from reading uninitialized socks · fd2ddef0
      Baptiste Lepers authored
      reuse->socks[] is modified concurrently by reuseport_add_sock. To
      prevent reading values that have not been fully initialized, only read
      the array up until the last known safe index instead of incorrectly
      re-reading the last index of the array.
      
      Fixes: acdcecc6 ("udp: correct reuseport selection with connected sockets")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBaptiste Lepers <baptiste.lepers@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107051110.12247-1-baptiste.lepers@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      fd2ddef0
    • Dongseok Yi's avatar
      net: fix use-after-free when UDP GRO with shared fraglist · 53475c5d
      Dongseok Yi authored
      skbs in fraglist could be shared by a BPF filter loaded at TC. If TC
      writes, it will call skb_ensure_writable -> pskb_expand_head to create
      a private linear section for the head_skb. And then call
      skb_clone_fraglist -> skb_get on each skb in the fraglist.
      
      skb_segment_list overwrites part of the skb linear section of each
      fragment itself. Even after skb_clone, the frag_skbs share their
      linear section with their clone in PF_PACKET.
      
      Both sk_receive_queue of PF_PACKET and PF_INET (or PF_INET6) can have
      a link for the same frag_skbs chain. If a new skb (not frags) is
      queued to one of the sk_receive_queue, multiple ptypes can see and
      release this. It causes use-after-free.
      
      [ 4443.426215] ------------[ cut here ]------------
      [ 4443.426222] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
      [ 4443.426291] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 28161 at lib/refcount.c:190
      refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
      [ 4443.426726] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO)
      [ 4443.426732] pc : refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
      [ 4443.426737] lr : refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa0/0xc8
      [ 4443.426808] Call trace:
      [ 4443.426813]  refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
      [ 4443.426823]  skb_release_data+0x144/0x264
      [ 4443.426828]  kfree_skb+0x58/0xc4
      [ 4443.426832]  skb_queue_purge+0x64/0x9c
      [ 4443.426844]  packet_set_ring+0x5f0/0x820
      [ 4443.426849]  packet_setsockopt+0x5a4/0xcd0
      [ 4443.426853]  __sys_setsockopt+0x188/0x278
      [ 4443.426858]  __arm64_sys_setsockopt+0x28/0x38
      [ 4443.426869]  el0_svc_common+0xf0/0x1d0
      [ 4443.426873]  el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x98
      [ 4443.426880]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
      
      Fixes: 3a1296a3 (net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDongseok Yi <dseok.yi@samsung.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1610072918-174177-1-git-send-email-dseok.yi@samsung.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      53475c5d
    • Stephan Gerhold's avatar
      net: ipa: modem: add missing SET_NETDEV_DEV() for proper sysfs links · afba9dc1
      Stephan Gerhold authored
      At the moment it is quite hard to identify the network interface
      provided by IPA in userspace components: The network interface is
      created as virtual device, without any link to the IPA device.
      The interface name ("rmnet_ipa%d") is the only indication that the
      network interface belongs to IPA, but this is not very reliable.
      
      Add SET_NETDEV_DEV() to associate the network interface with the
      IPA parent device. This allows userspace services like ModemManager
      to properly identify that this network interface is provided by IPA
      and belongs to the modem.
      
      Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
      Fixes: a646d6ec ("soc: qcom: ipa: modem and microcontroller")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210106100755.56800-1-stephan@gerhold.netSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      afba9dc1
  6. 08 Jan, 2021 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net · 6279d812
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
       "Slightly lighter pull request to get back into the Thursday cadence.
      
        Current release - always broken:
      
         - can: mcp251xfd: fix Tx/Rx ring buffer driver race conditions
      
         - dsa: hellcreek: fix led_classdev build errors
      
        Previous releases - regressions:
      
         - ipv6: fib: flush exceptions when purging route to avoid netdev
           reference leak
      
         - ip_tunnels: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode
      
         - ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets to avoid MTU issues
           when forwarding through tunnels, correct "packet too big" message
           is prohibitively tricky to generate
      
         - s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal and during
           recovery to prevent both deadlocks and races
      
         - mlx5: Use port_num 1 instead of 0 when delete a RoCE address
      
        Previous releases - always broken:
      
         - cdc_ncm: correct overhead calculation in delayed_ndp_size to
           prevent out of bound accesses with Huawei 909s-120 LTE module
      
         - fix stmmac dwmac-sun8i suspend/resume:
                 - PHY being left powered off
                 - MAC syscon configuration being reset
                 - reference to the reset controller being improperly dropped
      
         - qrtr: fix null-ptr-deref in qrtr_ns_remove
      
         - can: tcan4x5x: fix bittiming const, use common bittiming from m_can
           driver
      
         - mlx5e: CT: Use per flow counter when CT flow accounting is enabled
      
         - mlx5e: Fix SWP offsets when vlan inserted by driver
      
        Misc:
      
         - bpf: Fix a task_iter bug caused by a bpf -> net merge conflict
           resolution
      
        And the usual many fixes to various error paths"
      
      * tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (69 commits)
        net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Exclude RMII from modes that report 1 GbE
        s390/qeth: fix L2 header access in qeth_l3_osa_features_check()
        s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal
        s390/qeth: fix deadlock during recovery
        selftests: fib_nexthops: Fix wrong mausezahn invocation
        nexthop: Bounce NHA_GATEWAY in FDB nexthop groups
        nexthop: Unlink nexthop group entry in error path
        nexthop: Fix off-by-one error in error path
        octeontx2-af: fix memory leak of lmac and lmac->name
        chtls: Fix chtls resources release sequence
        chtls: Added a check to avoid NULL pointer dereference
        chtls: Replace skb_dequeue with skb_peek
        chtls: Avoid unnecessary freeing of oreq pointer
        chtls: Fix panic when route to peer not configured
        chtls: Remove invalid set_tcb call
        chtls: Fix hardware tid leak
        net: ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets
        net: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode
        selftests: netfilter: add selftest for ipip pmtu discovery with enabled connection tracking
        docs: octeontx2: tune rst markup
        ...
      6279d812
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 · ea1c87c1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu:
       "This fixes a functional bug in arm/chacha-neon as well as a potential
        buffer overflow in ecdh"
      
      * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
        crypto: ecdh - avoid buffer overflow in ecdh_set_secret()
        crypto: arm/chacha-neon - add missing counter increment
      ea1c87c1
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      poll: fix performance regression due to out-of-line __put_user() · ef0ba055
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The kernel test robot reported a -5.8% performance regression on the
      "poll2" test of will-it-scale, and bisected it to commit d55564cf
      ("x86: Make __put_user() generate an out-of-line call").
      
      I didn't expect an out-of-line __put_user() to matter, because no normal
      core code should use that non-checking legacy version of user access any
      more.  But I had overlooked the very odd poll() usage, which does a
      __put_user() to update the 'revents' values of the poll array.
      
      Now, Al Viro correctly points out that instead of updating just the
      'revents' field, it would be much simpler to just copy the _whole_
      pollfd entry, and then we could just use "copy_to_user()" on the whole
      array of entries, the same way we use "copy_from_user()" a few lines
      earlier to get the original values.
      
      But that is not what we've traditionally done, and I worry that threaded
      applications might be concurrently modifying the other fields of the
      pollfd array.  So while Al's suggestion is simpler - and perhaps worth
      trying in the future - this instead keeps the "just update revents"
      model.
      
      To fix the performance regression, use the modern "unsafe_put_user()"
      instead of __put_user(), with the proper "user_write_access_begin()"
      guarding in place. This improves code generation enormously.
      
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210107134723.GA28532@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarOliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ef0ba055
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console" · a91bd622
      Petr Mladek authored
      This reverts commit 757055ae.
      
      The commit caused that ttynull was used as the default console
      on several systems[1][2][3]. As a result, the console was
      blank even when a better alternative existed.
      
      It happened when there was no console configured
      on the command line and ttynull_init() was the first initcall
      calling register_console().
      
      Or it happened when /dev/ did not exist when console_on_rootfs()
      was called. It was not able to open /dev/console even though
      a console driver was registered. It tried to add ttynull console
      but it obviously did not help. But ttynull became the preferred
      console and was used by /dev/console when it was available later.
      
      The commit tried to fix a historical problem that have been there
      for ages. The primary motivation was the commit 3cffa06a
      ("printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console=""
       or console=null"). It provided a clean solution for a workaround
       that was widely used and worked only by chance.
      
      This revert causes that the console="" or console=null command line
      options will again work only by chance. These options will cause that
      a particular console will be preferred and the default (tty) ones
      will not get enabled. There will be no console registered at
      all. As a result there won't be stdin, stdout, and stderr for
      the init process. But it worked exactly this way even before.
      
      The proper solution has to fulfill many conditions:
      
        + Register ttynull only when explicitly required or as
          the ultimate fallback.
      
        + ttynull should get associated with /dev/console but it must
          not become preferred console when used as a fallback.
          Especially, it must still be possible to replace it
          by a better console later.
      
      Such a change requires clean up of the register_console() code.
      Otherwise, it would be even harder to follow. Especially, the use
      of has_preferred_console and CON_CONSDEV flag is tricky. The clean
      up is risky. The ordering of consoles is not well defined. And
      any changes tend to break existing user settings.
      
      Do the revert at the least risky solution for now.
      
      [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20201221144302.GR4077@smile.fi.intel.com/
      [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d2a3b3c0-e548-7dd1-730f-59bc5c04e191@synopsys.com/
      [3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-um/patch/20210105120128.10854-1-thomas@m3y3r.de/Reported-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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