linux-stable.git/drivers/tty/tty_io.c, branch linux-3.9.y

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-08T03:33:07+00:00

commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde upstream.

We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit
b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then
limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY:
fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both
insufficient and overkill.

It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node
to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill
because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an
idle person from an active one with 'w'.

So this tries to fix the problem properly.  It marks the shared ptmx
node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few
seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual
keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is
active or not.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-04-26T14:59:23+00:00

In commit b0de59b5733d ("TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write")
we removed timestamps from tty inodes to fix a security issue and waited
if something breaks.  Well, 'w', the utility to find out logged users
and their inactivity time broke.  It shows that users are inactive since
the time they logged in.

To revert to the old behaviour while still preventing attackers to
guess the password length, we update the timestamps in one-minute
intervals by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

more file_inode() open-coded instances

2013-02-27T21:59:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2013-02-22T01:54:03+00:00

Pull s390 update from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The most prominent change in this patch set is the software dirty bit
  patch for s390.  It removes __HAVE_ARCH_PAGE_TEST_AND_CLEAR_DIRTY and
  the page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive which makes the common memory
  management code a bit less obscure.

  Heiko fixed most of the PCI related fallout, more often than not
  missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies.  Notable is one of the 3270
  patches which adds an export to tty_io to be able to resize a tty.

  The rest is the usual bunch of cleanups and bug fixes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
  s390/module: Add missing R_390_NONE relocation type
  drivers/gpio: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQ dependency
  drivers/input: add couple of missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies
  s390/cleanup: rename SPP to LPP
  s390/mm: implement software dirty bits
  s390/mm: Fix crst upgrade of mmap with MAP_FIXED
  s390/linker skript: discard exit.data at runtime
  drivers/media: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
  s390/bpf,jit: add vlan tag support
  drivers/net,AT91RM9200: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
  iucv: fix kernel panic at reboot
  s390/Kconfig: sort list of arch selected config options
  phylib: remove !S390 dependeny from Kconfig
  uio: remove !S390 dependency from Kconfig
  dasd: fix sysfs cleanup in dasd_generic_remove
  s390/pci: fix hotplug module init
  s390/pci: cleanup clp page allocation
  s390/pci: cleanup clp inline assembly
  s390/perf: cpum_cf: fallback to software sampling events
  s390/mm: provide PAGE_SHARED define
  ...

Merge tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2013-02-21T21:41:04+00:00

Pull tty/serial patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big tty/serial driver patches for 3.9-rc1.

  More tty port rework and fixes from Jiri here, as well as lots of
  individual serial driver updates and fixes.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while."

* tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
  tty: mxser: improve error handling in mxser_probe() and mxser_module_init()
  serial: imx: fix uninitialized variable warning
  serial: tegra: assume CONFIG_OF
  TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write
  lguest: select CONFIG_TTY to build properly.
  ARM defconfigs: add missing inclusions of linux/platform_device.h
  fb/exynos: include platform_device.h
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: include platform_device.h directly
  serial: imx: Fix recursive locking bug
  pps: Fix build breakage from decoupling pps from tty
  tty: Remove ancient hardpps()
  pps: Additional cleanups in uart_handle_dcd_change
  pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper
  pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do
  pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
  pps: Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling
  pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function
  tty: serial: uartlite: Support uartlite on big and little endian systems
  tty: serial: uartlite: Fix sparse and checkpatch warnings
  serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments)
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts, mostly just due to the TTY config option
clashing with the EXPERIMENTAL removal.

TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write

2013-02-15T18:52:36+00:00

On http://vladz.devzero.fr/013_ptmx-timing.php, we can see how to find
out length of a password using timestamps of /dev/ptmx. It is
documented in "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on
SSH". To avoid that problem, do not update time when reading
from/writing to a TTY.

I am afraid of regressions as this is a behavior we have since 0.97
and apps may expect the time to be current, e.g. for monitoring
whether there was a change on the TTY. Now, there is no change. So
this would better have a lot of testing before it goes upstream.

References: CVE-2013-0160

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable  # after 3.9 is out
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390/3270: asynchronous size sensing

2013-02-14T14:55:03+00:00

Convert the synchronous size sense code to an interrupt driven
approach. This allows to set the device online even if the
terminal is not connected. With the new code views can be
registered without a connected terminal, the tty can be opened
as soon as the device is online. After the terminal has been
connected and the size has been determined the tty is resized
to match the device characteristics..

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values

2013-02-06T23:59:18+00:00

Michał's previous patch missed this tty check to fix up the
class_find_device() arguments.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Cc: Michał Mirosław 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Fix comments that reference BKL, eventd, old paths

2013-01-16T05:57:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Mark tty_del_file and __tty_hangup static

2012-11-21T23:19:52+00:00

Nothing outside of drivers/tty/tty_io.c references these functions, so
mark them static.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman