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Jiri Slaby acfa747baf TTY: open/hangup race fixup
Like in the "TTY: don't allow reopen when ldisc is changing" patch,
this one fixes a TTY WARNING as described in the option 1) there:
1) __tty_hangup from tty_ldisc_hangup to tty_ldisc_enable. During this
section tty_lock is held. However tty_lock is temporarily dropped in
the middle of the function by tty_ldisc_hangup.

The fix is to introduce a new flag which we set during the unlocked
window and check it in tty_reopen too. The flag is TTY_HUPPING and is
cleared after TTY_HUPPED is set.

While at it, remove duplicate TTY_HUPPED set_bit. The one after
calling ops->hangup seems to be more correct. But anyway, we hold
tty_lock, so there should be no difference.

Also document the function it does that kind of crap.

Nicely reproducible with two forked children:
static void do_work(const char *tty)
{
	if (signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR) exit(1);
	setsid();
	while (1) {
		int fd = open(tty, O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY);
		if (fd < 0) continue;
		if (ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY)) continue;
		if (vhangup()) continue;
		close(fd);
	}
	exit(0);
}

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Reported-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 14:52:48 -08:00
Jiri Slaby e2efafbf13 TTY: don't allow reopen when ldisc is changing
There are many WARNINGs like the following reported nowadays:
WARNING: at drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1331 tty_open+0x2a2/0x49a()
Hardware name: Latitude E6500
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1207, comm: plymouthd Not tainted 2.6.37-rc3-mmotm1123 #3
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8103b189>] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98
 [<ffffffff8103b1b6>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
 [<ffffffff8128a3ab>] tty_open+0x2a2/0x49a
 [<ffffffff810fd53f>] chrdev_open+0x11d/0x146
...

This means tty_reopen is called without TTY_LDISC set. For further
considerations, note tty_lock is held in tty_open. TTY_LDISC is cleared in:
1) __tty_hangup from tty_ldisc_hangup to tty_ldisc_enable. During this
section tty_lock is held. However tty_lock is temporarily dropped in
the middle of the function by tty_ldisc_hangup.

2) tty_release via tty_ldisc_release till the end of tty existence. If
tty->count <= 1, tty_lock is taken, TTY_CLOSING bit set and then
tty_ldisc_release called. tty_reopen checks TTY_CLOSING before checking
TTY_LDISC.

3) tty_set_ldisc from tty_ldisc_halt to tty_ldisc_enable. We:
   * take tty_lock, set TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, put tty_lock
   * call tty_ldisc_halt (clear TTY_LDISC), tty_lock is _not_ held
   * do some other work
   * take tty_lock, call tty_ldisc_enable (set TTY_LDISC), put
     tty_lock

I cannot see how 2) can be a problem, as there I see no race. OTOH, 1)
and 3) can happen without problems. This patch the case 3) by checking
TTY_LDISC_CHANGING along with TTY_CLOSING in tty_reopen. 1) will be
fixed in the following patch.

Nicely reproducible with two processes:
while (1) {
	fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR);
	if (fd < 0) {
		warn("open");
		continue;
	}
	close(fd);
}
--------
while (1) {
        fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR);
        ld1 = 0; ld2 = 2;
        while (1) {
                ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ld1);
                ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ld2);
        }
        close(fd);
}

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-29 14:52:48 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 96fd7ce58f TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files there
The tty code should be in its own subdirectory and not in the char
driver with all of the cruft that is currently there.

Based on work done by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-05 08:10:33 -07:00