commit 9ce119f318ba1a07c29149301f1544b6c4bea52a upstream.
A line discipline which does not define a receive_buf() method can
can cause a GPF if data is ever received [1]. Oddly, this was known
to the author of n_tracesink in 2011, but never fixed.
[1] GPF report
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [< (null)>] (null)
PGD 3752d067 PUD 37a7b067 PMD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 148 Comm: kworker/u10:2 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc2+ #51
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
task: ffff88006da94440 ti: ffff88006db60000 task.ti: ffff88006db60000
RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null)
RSP: 0018:ffff88006db67b50 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000102 RBX: ffff88003ab32f88 RCX: 0000000000000102
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88003ab330a6 RDI: ffff88003aabd388
RBP: ffff88006db67c48 R08: ffff88003ab32f9c R09: ffff88003ab31fb0
R10: ffff88003ab32fa8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88006db67c20 R14: ffffffff863df820 R15: ffff88003ab31fb8
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000037938000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Stack:
ffffffff829f46f1 ffff88006da94bf8 ffff88006da94bf8 0000000000000000
ffff88003ab31fb0 ffff88003aabd438 ffff88003ab31ff8 ffff88006430fd90
ffff88003ab32f9c ffffed0007557a87 1ffff1000db6cf78 ffff88003ab32078
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8127cf91>] process_one_work+0x8f1/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2030
[<ffffffff8127df14>] worker_thread+0xd4/0x1180 kernel/workqueue.c:2162
[<ffffffff8128faaf>] kthread+0x1cf/0x270 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1302
[<ffffffff852a7c2f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:468
Code: Bad RIP value.
RIP [< (null)>] (null)
RSP <ffff88006db67b50>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace a587f8947e54d6ea ]---
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
(cherry picked from commit b23324ffa8ef8cc96865db76db938905d61d949a)
[wt: applied to drivers/char/tty_buffer.c instead]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
commit e045fec48970df84647a47930fcf7a22ff7229c0 upstream.
There's a small window inside the flush_to_ldisc function,
where the tty is unlocked and calling ldisc's receive_buf
function. If in this window new buffer is added to the tty,
the processing might never leave the flush_to_ldisc function.
This scenario will hog the cpu, causing other tty processing
starving, and making it impossible to interface the computer
via tty.
I was able to exploit this via pty interface by sending only
control characters to the master input, causing the flush_to_ldisc
to be scheduled, but never actually generate any output.
To reproduce, please run multiple instances of following code.
- SNIP
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i, slave, master = getpt();
char buf[8192];
sprintf(buf, "%s", ptsname(master));
grantpt(master);
unlockpt(master);
slave = open(buf, O_RDWR);
if (slave < 0) {
perror("open slave failed");
return 1;
}
for(i = 0; i < sizeof(buf); i++)
buf[i] = rand() % 32;
while(1) {
write(master, buf, sizeof(buf));
}
return 0;
}
- SNIP
The attached patch (based on -next tree) fixes this by checking on the
tty buffer tail. Once it's reached, the current work is rescheduled
and another could run.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit d9661adfb8e53a7647360140af3b92284cbe52d4 upstream. We allocate during interrupts so while our buffering is normally diced up small anyway on some hardware at speed we can pressure the VM excessively for page pairs. We don't really need big buffers to be linear so don't try so hard. In order to make this work well we will tidy up excess callers to request_room, which cannot itself enforce this break up. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This way all flush_to_ldisc work is always done through the workqueues, and we thus have a single point of serialization. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?), and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the low_latency case. So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to be had. This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer (bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack (commit 3a54297478e6578f96fd54bf4daa1751130aca86: "pty: quickfix for the pty ENXIO timing problems"). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so that it triggers for both read and poll() - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>