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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	syzbot <syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e984d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] n_tty: Protect tty->disc_data using refcount.
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:48:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c219c68-f7ab-707e-d74e-0f959b12f2f5@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <021343cd-dc28-9889-7656-e624861bc770@suse.cz>

On 08/29/2018, 03:53 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 07/24/2018, 05:22 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> From 118c64e86641a97d44dec39e313a95b12d9bc3b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:15:18 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH v2] n_tty: Protect tty->disc_data using refcount.
>>
>> syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at n_tty_set_termios() [1].
>> This is because ioctl(TIOCVHANGUP) versus ioctl(TCSETS) can race.
>>
>> Since we don't want to introduce new locking dependency, this patch
>> converts "struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data;" in individual
>> function into a function argument which follows "struct tty *", and
>> holds tty->disc_data at each "struct tty_ldisc_ops" hook using refcount
>> in order to ensure that memory which contains "struct n_tty_data" will
>> not be released while processing individual function.
> 
> This does not look correct and is way too complicated. ioctls should not
> be called while changing/killing/hanging/whatever a ldisc. But there is
> one missing lock in tty_reopen.
> 
> So does the attached patch helps instead?

Which is btw in fact semantically the same as Dmitry's patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180829022353.23568-3-dima@arista.com/

> thanks,-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <db45a090-593d-23d2-e6b2-ede5b308f02f@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
     [not found]   ` <35d649ce-0c22-f839-aa4d-19733bf31a9c@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2018-07-17 10:14     ` [PATCH] n_tty: Protect tty->disc_data using refcount Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-24 15:22       ` [PATCH v2] " Tetsuo Handa
2018-07-25  8:06         ` Greg KH
2018-07-25 12:35           ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-29 13:53         ` Jiri Slaby
2018-08-29 14:48           ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2018-08-29 15:02           ` Tetsuo Handa

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