linux-stable.git/drivers/tty/tty_io.c, branch v3.2.69

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take four

2015-05-09T22:16:24+00:00

commit f0bf0bd07943bfde8f5ac39a32664810a379c7d3 upstream.

This problem was taken care of three times already in
* b0de59b5733d18b0d1974a060860a8b5c1b36a2e (TTY: do not update
  atime/mtime on read/write),
* 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee (TTY: fix atime/mtime
  regression), and
* b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde (tty: fix up atime/mtime
  mess, take three)

But it still misses one point. As John Paul correctly points out, we
do not care about setting date. If somebody ever changes wall
time backwards (by mistake for example), tty timestamps are never
updated until the original wall time passes.

So check the absolute difference of times and if it large than "8
seconds or so", always update the time. That means we will update
immediatelly when changing time. Ergo, CAP_SYS_TIME can foul the
check, but it was always that way.

Thanks John for serving me this so nicely debugged.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Reported-by: John Paul Perry 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

2014-12-14T16:23:55+00:00

commit 37b164578826406a173ca7c20d9ba7430134d23e upstream.

Kernel oops can cause the tty to be unreleaseable (for example, if
n_tty_read() crashes while on the read_wait queue). This will cause
tty_release() to endlessly loop without sleeping.

Use a killable sleep timeout which grows by 2n+1 jiffies over the interval
[0, 120 secs.) and then jumps to forever (but still killable).

NB: killable just allows for the task to be rewoken manually, not
to be terminated.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

2014-04-30T15:23:20+00:00

commit 723abd87f6e536f1353c8f64f621520bc29523a3 upstream.

The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently active tty
devices the console is running on, not the currently active console. The
console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs, only the tty the
console is running on has. So we need to print out the tty names in
'active', not the console names.

There is one special-case, which is tty0. If the console is directed to
it, we want 'tty0' to show up in the file, so user-space knows that the
messages get forwarded to the active VT. The ->device() callback would
resolve tty0, though. Hence, treat it special and don't call into the VT
layer to resolve it (plymouth is known to depend on it).

Cc: Lennart Poettering 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: no TTY_DRIVER_UNNUMBERED_NODE case in tty_line_name()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-13T14:02:32+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 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-05-13T14:02:31+00:00

commit 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee upstream.

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 
[bwh: For 3.2, use Greg's backported version]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

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

2013-05-13T14:02:31+00:00

commit b0de59b5733d18b0d1974a060860a8b5c1b36a2e upstream.

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2011-10-26T13:11:09+00:00

* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (79 commits)
  TTY: serial_core: Fix crash if DCD drop during suspend
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: bootconsole removed from auto-enumerates
  Revert "TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally"
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: add device tree support
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: auto-enumerate ports
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: whitespace and braces modifications
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: change platform_data variable name
  tty/serial: RS485 bindings for device tree
  TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally
  TTY: pty, release tty in all ptmx_open fail paths
  TTY: make tty_add_file non-failing
  TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path
  8250_pci: Fix kernel panic when pch_uart is disabled
  h8300: drivers/serial/Kconfig was moved
  parport_pc: release IO region properly if unsupported ITE887x card is found
  tty: Support compat_ioctl get/set termios_locked
  hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
  TTY: snyclinkmp: forever loop in tx_load_dma_buffer()
  tty/n_gsm: avoid fifo overflow in gsm_dlci_data_output
  tty/n_gsm: fix a bug in gsm_dlci_data_output (adaption = 2 case)
  ...

Fix up Conflicts in:
 - drivers/tty/serial/8250_pci.c
	Trivial conflict with removed duplicate device ID
 - drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
	Annoying silly conflict between "specify the port num via
	platform_data" and other changes to atmel_console_init

Revert "TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally"

2011-10-19T15:33:21+00:00

This reverts commit 631180aca723cb92e128fdac5fd144e913ca84e5.

It caused problems when /dev/tty is a pty:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/12/401

Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally

2011-10-18T23:39:44+00:00

Commit 4a2b5fddd5 (Move tty lookup/reopen to caller) made the call to
tty_driver_lookup_tty conditional in tty_open. It doesn't look like it
was an intention. Or if it was, it was not documented in the changelog
and the code now looks weird. For example there would be no need to
remember the tty driver and tty index. Further the condition depends
on a tty which we drop a reference of already.

If I'm looking correctly, this should not matter thanks to the locking
currently done there. Thus, tty_driver->ttys[idx] cannot change under
our hands. But anyway, it makes sense to change that to the old
behaviour.

Introduced-in: v2.6.28-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: make tty_add_file non-failing

2011-10-18T21:22:37+00:00

If tty_add_file fails at the point it is now, we have to revert all
the changes we did to the tty. It means either decrease all refcounts
if this was a tty reopen or delete the tty if it was newly allocated.

There was a try to fix this in v3.0-rc2 using tty_release in 0259894c7
(TTY: fix fail path in tty_open). But instead it introduced a NULL
dereference. It's because tty_release dereferences
filp->private_data, but that one is set even in our tty_add_file. And
when tty_add_file fails, it's still NULL/garbage. Hence tty_release
cannot be called there.

To circumvent the original leak (and the current NULL deref) we split
tty_add_file into two functions, making the latter non-failing. In
that case we may do the former early in open, where handling failures
is easy. The latter stays as it is now. So there is no change in
functionality.

The original bug (leak) was introduced by f573bd176 (tty: Remove
__GFP_NOFAIL from tty_add_file()). Thanks Dan for reporting this.

Later, we may split tty_release into more functions and call only some
of them in this fail path instead. (If at all possible.)

Introduced-in: v2.6.37-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman