TTY: hvc, fix TTY refcounting
authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:31:32 +0000 (10:31 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:54:43 +0000 (10:54 -0700)
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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c

index 6c45cbf..2d691eb 100644 (file)
@@ -317,8 +317,6 @@ static int hvc_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
        /* Check and then increment for fast path open. */
        if (hp->port.count++ > 0) {
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->port.lock, flags);
-               /* FIXME why taking a reference here? */
-               tty_kref_get(tty);
                hvc_kick();
                return 0;
        } /* else count == 0 */
@@ -338,7 +336,6 @@ static int hvc_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
         */
        if (rc) {
                tty_port_tty_set(&hp->port, NULL);
-               tty_kref_put(tty);
                tty->driver_data = NULL;
                tty_port_put(&hp->port);
                printk(KERN_ERR "hvc_open: request_irq failed with rc %d.\n", rc);
@@ -393,7 +390,6 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * filp)
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->port.lock, flags);
        }
 
-       tty_kref_put(tty);
        tty_port_put(&hp->port);
 }
 
@@ -433,7 +429,6 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
        while(temp_open_count) {
                --temp_open_count;
-               tty_kref_put(tty);
                tty_port_put(&hp->port);
        }
 }