[PATCH][v4] tty: fix race between flush_to_ldisc and tty_open

From: Li RongQing
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 04:27:32 EST


There still is a race window after the commit b027e2298bd588
("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf"),
and we encountered this crash issue if receive_buf call comes
before tty initialization completes in n_tty_open and
tty->driver_data may be NULL.

CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
n_tty_open
tty_init_dev
tty_ldisc_unlock
schedule
flush_to_ldisc
receive_buf
tty_port_default_receive_buf
tty_ldisc_receive_buf
n_tty_receive_buf_common
__receive_buf
uart_flush_chars
uart_start
/*tty->driver_data is NULL*/
tty->ops->open
/*init tty->driver_data*/

it can be fixed by extending ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev
to driver_data initialized completely after tty->ops->open(), but
this will lead to put lock on one function and unlock in some other
function, and hard to maintain, so fix this race only by checking
tty->driver_data when receiving, and return if tty->driver_data
is NULL

Signed-off-by: Wang Li <wangli39@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
V4: add version information
V3: not used ldisc semaphore lock, only checking tty->driver_data with NULL
V2: fix building error by EXPORT_SYMBOL tty_ldisc_unlock
V1: extend ldisc lock to protect that tty->driver_data is inited

drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
index 044c3cbdcfa4..86d0bec38322 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ static int tty_port_default_receive_buf(struct tty_port *port,
if (!tty)
return 0;

+ if (!tty->driver_data)
+ return 0;
+
disc = tty_ldisc_ref(tty);
if (!disc)
return 0;
--
2.16.2