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* [PATCH v2] tty: fix data race in flush_to_ldisc
@ 2015-09-17 10:39 Dmitry Vyukov
  2015-09-17 12:53 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Vyukov @ 2015-09-17 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh, peter, jslaby, linux-kernel
  Cc: jslaby, andreyknvl, kcc, glider, paulmck, hboehm, Dmitry Vyukov

flush_to_ldisc reads port->itty and checks that it is not NULL,
concurrently release_tty sets port->itty to NULL. It is possible
that flush_to_ldisc loads port->itty once, ensures that it is
not NULL, but then reloads it again and uses. The second load
can already return NULL, which will cause a crash.

Use READ_ONCE to read port->itty.

The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>

---

Changed since first version:
 - remove WRITE_ONCE when updating port->itty
---
 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 5a3fa89..23de97d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 	struct tty_ldisc *disc;
 
-	tty = port->itty;
+	tty = READ_ONCE(port->itty);
 	if (tty == NULL)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.6.0.rc0.131.gf624c3d


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