From: samir@embedur.com
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.co
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Samir Virmani <samir@embedur.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Subject: [PATCH] uart: Fix crash in uart_write and uart_put_char
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:28:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1547663287-4890-1-git-send-email-samir@embedur.com> (raw)
From: Samir Virmani <samir@embedur.com>
We were experiencing a crash similar to the one reported as part of
commit:a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and
uart_shutdown()") in our testbed as well. We continue to observe the same
crash after integrating the commit a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: fix race between
uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()")
On reviewing the change, the port lock should be taken prior to checking for
if (!circ->buf) in fn. __uart_put_char and other fns. that update the buffer
uart_state->xmit.
Traceback:
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4870] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at virtual address 0000003b
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] PC is at memcpy+0x48/0x180
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] LR is at uart_write+0x74/0x120
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] pc : [<ffffffc0002e6808>]
lr : [<ffffffc0003747cc>] pstate: 000001c5
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] sp : ffffffc076433d30
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x29: ffffffc076433d30 x28: 0000000000000140
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x27: ffffffc0009b9d5e x26: ffffffc07ce36580
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000140
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x23: ffffffc000891200 x22: ffffffc01fc34000
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x21: 0000000000000fff x20: 0000000000000076
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x19: 0000000000000076 x18: 0000000000000000
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x17: 000000000047cf08 x16: ffffffc000099e68
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x15: 0000000000000018 x14: 776d726966205948
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x13: 50203a6c6974755f x12: 74647075205d3333
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x11: 3a35323a36203831 x10: 30322f37322f3131
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x9 : 5b205d303638342e x8 : 746164206f742070
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x7 : 7520736920657261 x6 : 000000000000003b
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x5 : 000000000000817a x4 : 0000000000000008
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x3 : 2f37322f31312a5b x2 : 000000000000006e
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] x1 : ffffffc0009b9cf0 x0 : 000000000000003b
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] CPU2: stopping
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: P D O 4.1.51 #3
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] Hardware name: Broadcom-v8A (DT)
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] Call trace:
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc0000883b8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x150
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc00008851c>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc0005ee810>] dump_stack+0x90/0xb0
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc00008e844>] handle_IPI+0x18c/0x1a0
[11/27/2018 06:24:32.4950] [<ffffffc000080c68>] gic_handle_irq+0x88/0x90
Fixes: a5ba1d95e46e ("uart: fix race between uart_put_char() and
uart_shutdown()")
Signed-off-by: Samir Virmani <samir@embedur.com>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index c439a5a..bb55db2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -540,10 +540,12 @@ static int uart_put_char(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char c)
int ret = 0;
circ = &state->xmit;
- if (!circ->buf)
+ port = uart_port_lock(state, flags);
+ if (!circ->buf) {
+ uart_port_unlock(port, flags);
return 0;
+ }
- port = uart_port_lock(state, flags);
if (port && uart_circ_chars_free(circ) != 0) {
circ->buf[circ->head] = c;
circ->head = (circ->head + 1) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
@@ -576,11 +578,13 @@ static int uart_write(struct tty_struct *tty,
return -EL3HLT;
}
+ port = uart_port_lock(state, flags);
circ = &state->xmit;
- if (!circ->buf)
+ if (!circ->buf) {
+ uart_port_unlock(port, flags);
return 0;
+ }
- port = uart_port_lock(state, flags);
while (port) {
c = CIRC_SPACE_TO_END(circ->head, circ->tail, UART_XMIT_SIZE);
if (count < c)
--
2.7.4
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