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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c, branch v4.13.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2017-07-04T03:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T03:04:16+00:00</published>
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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1.

  A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some
  fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing
  huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers,
  full details in the shortlog.

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

* tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits)
  tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method
  tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp
  tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support
  dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support
  tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
  tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype
  tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property
  serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT
  serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed
  serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct
  serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout
  serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI
  tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings
  dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs
  serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports
  serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const
  serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs
  tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon
  dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs
  tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only
  ...
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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1.

  A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some
  fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing
  huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers,
  full details in the shortlog.

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

* tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits)
  tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method
  tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp
  tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support
  dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support
  tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
  tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype
  tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property
  serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT
  serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed
  serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct
  serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout
  serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI
  tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings
  dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs
  serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports
  serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const
  serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs
  tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon
  dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs
  tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline</title>
<updated>2017-06-03T09:43:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@llwyncelyn.cymru</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T12:49:30+00:00</published>
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Historically the N_TTY driver could never fail but this has become broken over
time. Rather than trying to rewrite half the ldisc layer to fix the breakage
introduce a second level of fallback with an N_NULL ldisc which cannot fail,
and thus restore the guarantees required by the ldisc layer.

We still try and fail to N_TTY first. It's much more useful to find yourself
back in your old ldisc (first attempt) or in N_TTY (second attempt), and while
I'm not aware of any code out there that makes those assumptions it's good to
drive(r) defensively.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Historically the N_TTY driver could never fail but this has become broken over
time. Rather than trying to rewrite half the ldisc layer to fix the breakage
introduce a second level of fallback with an N_NULL ldisc which cannot fail,
and thus restore the guarantees required by the ldisc layer.

We still try and fail to N_TTY first. It's much more useful to find yourself
back in your old ldisc (first attempt) or in N_TTY (second attempt), and while
I'm not aware of any code out there that makes those assumptions it's good to
drive(r) defensively.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>staging: speakup: add tty-based comms functions</title>
<updated>2017-05-16T12:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Okash Khawaja</name>
<email>okash.khawaja@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-15T17:45:33+00:00</published>
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This adds spk_ttyio.c file. It contains a set of functions which implement
those methods in spk_synth struct which relate to sending bytes out using
serial comms. Implementations in this file perform the same function but
using TTY subsystem instead. Currently synths access serial ports, directly
poking standard ISA ports by trying to steal them from serial driver. Some ISA
cards actually need this way of doing it, but most other synthesizers don't,
and can actually work by using the proper TTY subsystem through a new N_SPEAKUP
line discipline. So this adds the methods for drivers to switch to accessing
serial ports through the TTY subsystem, whenever appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja &lt;okash.khawaja@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This adds spk_ttyio.c file. It contains a set of functions which implement
those methods in spk_synth struct which relate to sending bytes out using
serial comms. Implementations in this file perform the same function but
using TTY subsystem instead. Currently synths access serial ports, directly
poking standard ISA ports by trying to steal them from serial driver. Some ISA
cards actually need this way of doing it, but most other synthesizers don't,
and can actually work by using the proper TTY subsystem through a new N_SPEAKUP
line discipline. So this adds the methods for drivers to switch to accessing
serial ports through the TTY subsystem, whenever appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja &lt;okash.khawaja@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T08:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-14T08:57:52+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 5362544bebe85071188dd9e479b5a5040841c895 as it is
reported to cause a reproducable crash.

Fixes: 5362544bebe8 ("tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()")
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
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This reverts commit 5362544bebe85071188dd9e479b5a5040841c895 as it is
reported to cause a reproducable crash.

Fixes: 5362544bebe8 ("tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()")
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: fix data race in tty_ldisc_ref_wait()</title>
<updated>2017-03-17T05:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-04T12:46:12+00:00</published>
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tty_ldisc_ref_wait() checks tty-&gt;ldisc under tty-&gt;ldisc_sem.
But if ldisc==NULL it releases them sem and reloads
tty-&gt;ldisc without holding the sem. This is wrong and
can lead to returning non-NULL ldisc without protection.

Don't reload tty-&gt;ldisc second time.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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tty_ldisc_ref_wait() checks tty-&gt;ldisc under tty-&gt;ldisc_sem.
But if ldisc==NULL it releases them sem and reloads
tty-&gt;ldisc without holding the sem. This is wrong and
can lead to returning non-NULL ldisc without protection.

Don't reload tty-&gt;ldisc second time.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()</title>
<updated>2017-03-17T05:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-04T13:55:19+00:00</published>
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If tty_ldisc_open() fails in tty_set_ldisc(), it tries to go back
to the old discipline or N_TTY. But that can fail as well, in such
case it panics. This is not a graceful way to handle OOM.

Leave ldisc==NULL if all attempts fail instead.
Also use existing tty_ldisc_reinit() helper function instead of
tty_ldisc_restore(). Also don't WARN/BUG in tty_ldisc_reinit()
if N_TTY fails, which would have the same net effect of bringing
kernel down on OOM. Instead print a single line message about
what has happened.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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If tty_ldisc_open() fails in tty_set_ldisc(), it tries to go back
to the old discipline or N_TTY. But that can fail as well, in such
case it panics. This is not a graceful way to handle OOM.

Leave ldisc==NULL if all attempts fail instead.
Also use existing tty_ldisc_reinit() helper function instead of
tty_ldisc_restore(). Also don't WARN/BUG in tty_ldisc_reinit()
if N_TTY fails, which would have the same net effect of bringing
kernel down on OOM. Instead print a single line message about
what has happened.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Eliminate global symbol tty_ldisc_N_TTY</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T23:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-10T05:35:19+00:00</published>
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Reduce global tty symbols; move and rename tty_ldisc_begin() as
n_tty_init() and redefine the N_TTY ldisc ops as file scope.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Reduce global tty symbols; move and rename tty_ldisc_begin() as
n_tty_init() and redefine the N_TTY ldisc ops as file scope.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Avoid unnecessary temporaries for tty-&gt;ldisc</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T23:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T06:41:08+00:00</published>
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tty_ldisc_setup() is race-free and can reference tty-&gt;ldisc without
snapshots.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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tty_ldisc_setup() is race-free and can reference tty-&gt;ldisc without
snapshots.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Destroy ldisc instance on hangup</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T23:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T06:41:06+00:00</published>
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Currently, when the tty is hungup, the ldisc is re-instanced; ie., the
current instance is destroyed and a new instance is created. The purpose
of this design was to guarantee a valid, open ldisc for the lifetime of
the tty.

However, now that tty buffers are owned by and have lifetime equivalent
to the tty_port (since v3.10), any data received immediately after the
ldisc is re-instanced may cause continued driver i/o operations
concurrently with the driver's hangup() operation. For drivers that
shutdown h/w on hangup, this is unexpected and usually bad. For example,
the serial core may free the xmit buffer page concurrently with an
in-progress write() operation (triggered by echo).

With the existing stable and robust ldisc reference handling, the
cleaned-up tty_reopen(), the straggling unsafe ldisc use cleaned up, and
the preparation to properly handle a NULL tty-&gt;ldisc, the ldisc instance
can be destroyed and only re-instanced when the tty is re-opened.

If the tty was opened as /dev/console or /dev/tty0, the original behavior
of re-instancing the ldisc is retained (the 'reinit' parameter to
tty_ldisc_hangup() is true). This is required since those file descriptors
are never hungup.

This patch has neglible impact on userspace; the tty file_operations ptr
is changed to point to the hungup file operations _before_ the ldisc
instance is destroyed, so only racing file operations might now retrieve
a NULL ldisc reference (which is simply handled as if the hungup file
operation had been called instead -- see "tty: Prepare for destroying
line discipline on hangup").

This resolves a long-standing FIXME and several crash reports.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently, when the tty is hungup, the ldisc is re-instanced; ie., the
current instance is destroyed and a new instance is created. The purpose
of this design was to guarantee a valid, open ldisc for the lifetime of
the tty.

However, now that tty buffers are owned by and have lifetime equivalent
to the tty_port (since v3.10), any data received immediately after the
ldisc is re-instanced may cause continued driver i/o operations
concurrently with the driver's hangup() operation. For drivers that
shutdown h/w on hangup, this is unexpected and usually bad. For example,
the serial core may free the xmit buffer page concurrently with an
in-progress write() operation (triggered by echo).

With the existing stable and robust ldisc reference handling, the
cleaned-up tty_reopen(), the straggling unsafe ldisc use cleaned up, and
the preparation to properly handle a NULL tty-&gt;ldisc, the ldisc instance
can be destroyed and only re-instanced when the tty is re-opened.

If the tty was opened as /dev/console or /dev/tty0, the original behavior
of re-instancing the ldisc is retained (the 'reinit' parameter to
tty_ldisc_hangup() is true). This is required since those file descriptors
are never hungup.

This patch has neglible impact on userspace; the tty file_operations ptr
is changed to point to the hungup file operations _before_ the ldisc
instance is destroyed, so only racing file operations might now retrieve
a NULL ldisc reference (which is simply handled as if the hungup file
operation had been called instead -- see "tty: Prepare for destroying
line discipline on hangup").

This resolves a long-standing FIXME and several crash reports.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Refactor tty_ldisc_reinit() for reuse</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T23:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T06:41:05+00:00</published>
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At tty hangup, the line discipline instance is reinitialized by
closing the current ldisc instance and opening a new instance.
This operation is complicated by error recovery: if the attempt
to reinit the current line discipline fails, the line discipline
is reset to N_TTY (which should not but can fail).

Re-purpose tty_ldisc_reinit() to return a valid, open line discipline
instance, or otherwise, an error.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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At tty hangup, the line discipline instance is reinitialized by
closing the current ldisc instance and opening a new instance.
This operation is complicated by error recovery: if the attempt
to reinit the current line discipline fails, the line discipline
is reset to N_TTY (which should not but can fail).

Re-purpose tty_ldisc_reinit() to return a valid, open line discipline
instance, or otherwise, an error.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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