When reiniting a tty we can end up with:
[ 417.514499] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address
0x00002260
[ 417.515361] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000006fad80
cpu 0x15: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000799411f890]
pc: c0000000006fad80: n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xc0/0xbd0
lr: c0000000006fad5c: n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x9c/0xbd0
sp: c00000799411fb10
msr: 900000000280b033
dar: 2260
dsisr: 40000000
current = 0xc0000079675d1e00
paca = 0xc00000000fb0d200 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 5, comm = kworker/u56:0
Linux version 4.11.0-rc5-next-20170405 (mikey@bml86) (gcc version 5.4.0
20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #2 SMP Thu Apr 6 00:36:46 CDT
2017
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[c00000799411fbe0] c0000000006ff968 tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x48/0xe0
[c00000799411fc10] c0000000007009d8 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x68/0xe0
[c00000799411fc50] c0000000006ffce4 flush_to_ldisc+0x114/0x130
[c00000799411fca0] c00000000010a0fc process_one_work+0x1ec/0x580
[c00000799411fd30] c00000000010a528 worker_thread+0x98/0x5d0
[c00000799411fdc0] c00000000011343c kthread+0x16c/0x1b0
[c00000799411fe30] c00000000000b4e8 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
This is due to a NULL ptr dref of tty->disc_data in
tty_ldisc_receive_buf() called from flush_to_ldisc()
This fixes the issue by moving the disc_data read to after we take the
semaphore. Then when disc_data NULL returning 0 data processed rather
than dereferencing it.
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> [4.10+]
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org>
---
drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
index bdf0e6e899..a2a9832a42 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -1668,11 +1668,17 @@ static int
n_tty_receive_buf_common(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *cp,
char *fp, int count, int flow)
{
- struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data;
+ struct n_tty_data *ldata;
int room, n, rcvd = 0, overflow;
down_read(&tty->termios_rwsem);
+ ldata = tty->disc_data;
+ if (!ldata) {
+ up_read(&tty->termios_rwsem);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
while (1) {
/*
* When PARMRK is set, each input char may take up to 3 chars
--
2.9.3
