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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> | 2018-04-16 20:06:34 +0900 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-23 11:05:52 +0200 |
| commit | 598c2d41ff44889dd8eced4f117403e472158d85 (patch) | |
| tree | a3b03dd67a98da4275e504ac7c3e74f01f8e033a /drivers | |
| parent | 17a16542b88e753cc3bd54cf30b74df3d547421e (diff) | |
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tty: Avoid possible error pointer dereference at tty_ldisc_restore().
syzbot is reporting crashes [1] triggered by memory allocation failure at
tty_ldisc_get() from tty_ldisc_restore(). While syzbot stops at WARN_ON()
due to panic_on_warn == true, panic_on_warn == false will after all trigger
an OOPS by dereferencing old->ops->num if IS_ERR(old) == true.
We can simplify tty_ldisc_restore() as three calls (old->ops->num, N_TTY,
N_NULL) to tty_ldisc_failto() in addition to avoiding possible error
pointer dereference.
If someone reports kernel panic triggered by forcing all memory allocations
for tty_ldisc_restore() to fail, we can consider adding __GFP_NOFAIL for
tty_ldisc_restore() case.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6ac359c61e71d22e06db7f8f88243feb11d927e7
Reported-by: syzbot+40b7287c2dc987c48c81@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@llwyncelyn.cymru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c index 050f4d650891..c1cf6cb83185 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -527,19 +527,16 @@ static int tty_ldisc_failto(struct tty_struct *tty, int ld) static void tty_ldisc_restore(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_ldisc *old) { /* There is an outstanding reference here so this is safe */ - old = tty_ldisc_get(tty, old->ops->num); - WARN_ON(IS_ERR(old)); - tty->ldisc = old; - tty_set_termios_ldisc(tty, old->ops->num); - if (tty_ldisc_open(tty, old) < 0) { - tty_ldisc_put(old); + if (tty_ldisc_failto(tty, old->ops->num) < 0) { + const char *name = tty_name(tty); + + pr_warn("Falling back ldisc for %s.\n", name); /* The traditional behaviour is to fall back to N_TTY, we want to avoid falling back to N_NULL unless we have no choice to avoid the risk of breaking anything */ if (tty_ldisc_failto(tty, N_TTY) < 0 && tty_ldisc_failto(tty, N_NULL) < 0) - panic("Couldn't open N_NULL ldisc for %s.", - tty_name(tty)); + panic("Couldn't open N_NULL ldisc for %s.", name); } } |