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Subject答复: [PATCH][v4] tty: fix race between flu sh to ldisc and tty open
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> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Kohli, Gaurav [mailto:gkohli@codeaurora.org]
> 发送时间: 2019年1月18日 20:51
> 收件人: Li,Rongqing <lirongqing@baidu.com>; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org;
> jslaby@suse.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 主题: Re: [PATCH][v4] tty: fix race between flush_to_ldisc and tty_open
>
>
>
> On 1/18/2019 2:57 PM, Li RongQing wrote:
> > There still is a race window after the commit b027e2298bd588
> > ("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf"), and we
> > encountered this crash issue if receive_buf call comes before tty
> > initialization completes in n_tty_open and
> > tty->driver_data may be NULL.
> >
> > CPU0 CPU1
> > ---- ----
> > n_tty_open
> > tty_init_dev
> > tty_ldisc_unlock
> > schedule flush_to_ldisc
> > receive_buf
> > tty_port_default_receive_buf
> > tty_ldisc_receive_buf
> > n_tty_receive_buf_common
> > __receive_buf
> > uart_flush_chars
> > uart_start
> > /*tty->driver_data is NULL*/
> > tty->ops->open
> > /*init tty->driver_data*/
> >
> > it can be fixed by extending ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev to
> > driver_data initialized completely after tty->ops->open(), but this
> > will lead to put lock on one function and unlock in some other
> > function, and hard to maintain, so fix this race only by checking
> > tty->driver_data when receiving, and return if tty->driver_data
> > is NULL
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Li <wangli39@baidu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
> > ---
> > V4: add version information
> > V3: not used ldisc semaphore lock, only checking tty->driver_data with
> > NULL
> > V2: fix building error by EXPORT_SYMBOL tty_ldisc_unlock
> > V1: extend ldisc lock to protect that tty->driver_data is inited
> >
> > drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c index
> > 044c3cbdcfa4..86d0bec38322 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
> > @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ static int tty_port_default_receive_buf(struct tty_port
> *port,
> > if (!tty)
> > return 0;
> >
> > + if (!tty->driver_data)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > disc = tty_ldisc_ref(tty);
> > if (!disc)
> > return 0;
> >
> Acked-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
>
> It looks good to me w.r.t previous approach, but Let's Maintainer decide once.
>

Thanks for your review, this one is simple and safe, it is used as live-patch online

-RongQing


> Regards
> Gaurav
> --
> Qualcomm India Private Limited, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
> is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative
> Project.
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