[PATCH 4.19 101/116] vt: vt_ioctl: remove unnecessary console allocation checks

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 01 2020 - 12:28:03 EST


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1aa6e058dd6cd04471b1f21298270014daf48ac9 upstream.

The vc_cons_allocated() checks in vt_ioctl() and vt_compat_ioctl() are
unnecessary because they can only be reached by calling ioctl() on an
open tty, which implies the corresponding virtual console is allocated.

And even if the virtual console *could* be freed concurrently, then
these checks would be broken since they aren't done under console_lock,
and the vc_data is dereferenced before them anyway.

So, remove these unneeded checks to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224080326.295046-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 21 ++-------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -350,22 +350,13 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
{
struct vc_data *vc = tty->driver_data;
struct console_font_op op; /* used in multiple places here */
- unsigned int console;
+ unsigned int console = vc->vc_num;
unsigned char ucval;
unsigned int uival;
void __user *up = (void __user *)arg;
int i, perm;
int ret = 0;

- console = vc->vc_num;
-
-
- if (!vc_cons_allocated(console)) { /* impossible? */
- ret = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
- goto out;
- }
-
-
/*
* To have permissions to do most of the vt ioctls, we either have
* to be the owner of the tty, or have CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG.
@@ -1195,18 +1186,10 @@ long vt_compat_ioctl(struct tty_struct *
{
struct vc_data *vc = tty->driver_data;
struct console_font_op op; /* used in multiple places here */
- unsigned int console;
void __user *up = (void __user *)arg;
int perm;
int ret = 0;

- console = vc->vc_num;
-
- if (!vc_cons_allocated(console)) { /* impossible? */
- ret = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
- goto out;
- }
-
/*
* To have permissions to do most of the vt ioctls, we either have
* to be the owner of the tty, or have CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG.
@@ -1266,7 +1249,7 @@ long vt_compat_ioctl(struct tty_struct *
arg = (unsigned long)compat_ptr(arg);
goto fallback;
}
-out:
+
return ret;

fallback: