From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] serial_core: Check for port state when tty is in error state
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:06:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200828090651.GA1110962@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200728124359.980-1-aik@ozlabs.ru>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:43:59PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment opening a serial device node (such as /dev/ttyS3)
> succeeds even if there is no actual serial device behind it.
> Reading/writing/ioctls (most) expectantly fail as the uart port is not
> initialized (the type is PORT_UNKNOWN) and the TTY_IO_ERROR error state
> bit is set fot the tty.
That is only if there is no ldisc set for the port, right? I don't
think that always will be the case if the port is not initialized.
Yes, we do clear this on port open, but we clear it before the
->activate() callback happens.
Why not check for initialized instead? That would seem to be what you
want to do here instead of checking for an io error.
> However syzkaller (a syscall fuzzer) found that setting line discipline
> does not have these checks all the way down to io_serial_out() in
> 8250_port.c (8250 is the default choice made by univ8250_console_init()).
> As the result of PORT_UNKNOWN, uart_port::iobase is NULL which
> a platform translates onto some address accessing which produces a crash
> like below.
>
> This adds tty_io_error() to uart_set_ldisc() to prevent the crash.
>
> The example of crash on PPC64/pseries:
>
> BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc00a000000000001
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000c9c9cc
> cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000000c6d7800]
> pc: c000000000c9c9cc: io_serial_out+0xcc/0xf0
> lr: c000000000c9c9b4: io_serial_out+0xb4/0xf0
> sp: c00000000c6d7a90
> msr: 8000000000009033
> dar: c00a000000000001
> dsisr: 42000000
> current = 0xc00000000cd22500
> paca = 0xc0000000035c0000 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01
> pid = 1371, comm = syz-executor.0
> Linux version 5.8.0-rc7-le-guest_syzkaller_a+fstn1 (aik@fstn1-p1) (gcc (Ubunt
> untu) 2.30) #660 SMP Tue Jul 28 22:29:22 AEST 2020
> enter ? for help
> [c00000000c6d7a90] c0000000018a8cc0 _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xb0/0xe0 (unreliable)
> [c00000000c6d7ad0] c000000000c9bdc0 serial8250_do_set_ldisc+0x140/0x180
> [c00000000c6d7b10] c000000000c9bea4 serial8250_set_ldisc+0xa4/0xb0
> [c00000000c6d7b50] c000000000c91138 uart_set_ldisc+0xb8/0x160
> [c00000000c6d7b90] c000000000c5a22c tty_set_ldisc+0x23c/0x330
> [c00000000c6d7c20] c000000000c4c220 tty_ioctl+0x990/0x12f0
> [c00000000c6d7d20] c00000000056357c ksys_ioctl+0x14c/0x180
> [c00000000c6d7d70] c0000000005635f0 sys_ioctl+0x40/0x60
> [c00000000c6d7db0] c00000000003b814 system_call_exception+0x1a4/0x330
> [c00000000c6d7e20] c00000000000d368 system_call_common+0xe8/0x214
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
>
> While looking at it, I noticed that a bunch of callbacks are prone to
> this bug and since I wanted to fix them all with minimum effort,
> I tried checking for PORT_UNKNOWN in uart_port_check() but it breaks
> device opening. Another approach could be checking for uart_port::iobase
> in 8250 (and probably uart_port::membase as well) but this will make
> the rest of the code to think the device is ok while there is no device
> at all.
>
> What would the correct approach be and what is the expectation?
We should probably check tty_port_initialized() on these code paths
better, care to fix that up?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-28 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 12:43 [RFC PATCH kernel] serial_core: Check for port state when tty is in error state Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-08-04 10:02 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-08-04 10:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-04 10:37 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-08-28 9:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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