From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:17:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: tty: fix data race in flush_to_ldisc
X-Git-Tag: v4.3-rc5~8^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7098296a362a96051fa120abf48f0095818b99cd;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git

tty: fix data race in flush_to_ldisc

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>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 5a3fa8913880..23de97de09a4 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;