[PATCH 3.16 196/366] tty: Avoid possible error pointer dereference at tty_ldisc_restore().

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.60-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 598c2d41ff44889dd8eced4f117403e472158d85 upstream.

syzbot is reporting crashes [1] triggered by memory allocation failure at
tty_ldisc_get() from tty_ldisc_restore(). While syzbot stops at WARN_ON()
due to panic_on_warn == true, panic_on_warn == false will after all trigger
an OOPS by dereferencing old->ops->num if IS_ERR(old) == true.

We can simplify tty_ldisc_restore() as three calls (old->ops->num, N_TTY,
N_NULL) to tty_ldisc_failto() in addition to avoiding possible error
pointer dereference.

If someone reports kernel panic triggered by forcing all memory allocations
for tty_ldisc_restore() to fail, we can consider adding __GFP_NOFAIL for
tty_ldisc_restore() case.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6ac359c61e71d22e06db7f8f88243feb11d927e7

Reported-by: syzbot+40b7287c2dc987c48c81@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: tty_name() requires a buffer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -510,19 +510,16 @@ static void tty_ldisc_restore(struct tty
 	char buf[64];
 
 	/* There is an outstanding reference here so this is safe */
-	old = tty_ldisc_get(tty, old->ops->num);
-	WARN_ON(IS_ERR(old));
-	tty->ldisc = old;
-	tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, old->ops->num);
-	if (tty_ldisc_open(tty, old) < 0) {
-		tty_ldisc_put(old);
+	if (tty_ldisc_failto(tty, old->ops->num) < 0) {
+		const char *name = tty_name(tty, buf);
+
+		pr_warn("Falling back ldisc for %s.\n", name);
 		/* The traditional behaviour is to fall back to N_TTY, we
 		   want to avoid falling back to N_NULL unless we have no
 		   choice to avoid the risk of breaking anything */
 		if (tty_ldisc_failto(tty, N_TTY) < 0 &&
 		    tty_ldisc_failto(tty, N_NULL) < 0)
-			panic("Couldn't open N_NULL ldisc for %s.",
-			      tty_name(tty, buf));
+			panic("Couldn't open N_NULL ldisc for %s.", name);
 	}
 }