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author | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> | 2007-08-10 13:01:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-11 15:47:41 -0700 |
commit | 42fd552e8647316757ded0176466c41d17934dcf (patch) | |
tree | 07b0f4ed1934c05c6495c62ba943ab90bde6be84 /drivers/char | |
parent | f8a745942b1b7f052cb76bb8a893d12cb6329c84 (diff) |
fix serial buffer memory leak
Patch c5c34d4862e18ef07c1276d233507f540fb5a532 (tty: flush flip buffer on
ldisc input queue flush) introduces a race condition which can lead to memory
leaks.
The problem can be triggered when tcflush() is called when data are being
pushed to the line discipline driver by flush_to_ldisc().
flush_to_ldisc() releases tty->buf.lock when calling the line discipline
receive_buf function. At that poing tty_buffer_flush() kicks in and sets both
tty->buf.head and tty->buf.tail to NULL. When flush_to_ldisc() finishes, it
restores tty->buf.head but doesn't touch tty->buf.tail. This corrups the
buffer queue, and the next call to tty_buffer_request_room() will allocate a
new buffer and overwrite tty->buf.head. The previous buffer is then lost
forever without being released.
(Thanks to Laurent for the above text, for finding, disgnosing and reporting
the bug)
- Use tty->flags bits for the flush status.
- Wait for the flag to clear again before returning
- Fix the doc error noted
- Fix flush of empty queue leaving stale flushpending
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/tty_io.c | 56 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c index de37ebc3a4c..51ea93cab6c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c @@ -369,25 +369,54 @@ static void tty_buffer_free(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_buffer *b) } /** - * tty_buffer_flush - flush full tty buffers + * __tty_buffer_flush - flush full tty buffers * @tty: tty to flush * - * flush all the buffers containing receive data + * flush all the buffers containing receive data. Caller must + * hold the buffer lock and must have ensured no parallel flush to + * ldisc is running. * - * Locking: none + * Locking: Caller must hold tty->buf.lock */ -static void tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty) +static void __tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct tty_buffer *thead; - unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags); while((thead = tty->buf.head) != NULL) { tty->buf.head = thead->next; tty_buffer_free(tty, thead); } tty->buf.tail = NULL; +} + +/** + * tty_buffer_flush - flush full tty buffers + * @tty: tty to flush + * + * flush all the buffers containing receive data. If the buffer is + * being processed by flush_to_ldisc then we defer the processing + * to that function + * + * Locking: none + */ + +static void tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty) +{ + unsigned long flags; + spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags); + + /* If the data is being pushed to the tty layer then we can't + process it here. Instead set a flag and the flush_to_ldisc + path will process the flush request before it exits */ + if (test_bit(TTY_FLUSHING, &tty->flags)) { + set_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags); + wait_event(tty->read_wait, + test_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags) == 0); + return; + } else + __tty_buffer_flush(tty); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags); } @@ -3594,6 +3623,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work) return; spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags); + set_bit(TTY_FLUSHING, &tty->flags); /* So we know a flush is running */ head = tty->buf.head; if (head != NULL) { tty->buf.head = NULL; @@ -3607,6 +3637,11 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work) tty_buffer_free(tty, tbuf); continue; } + /* Ldisc or user is trying to flush the buffers + we are feeding to the ldisc, stop feeding the + line discipline as we want to empty the queue */ + if (test_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags)) + break; if (!tty->receive_room) { schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1); break; @@ -3620,8 +3655,17 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work) disc->receive_buf(tty, char_buf, flag_buf, count); spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags); } + /* Restore the queue head */ tty->buf.head = head; } + /* We may have a deferred request to flush the input buffer, + if so pull the chain under the lock and empty the queue */ + if (test_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags)) { + __tty_buffer_flush(tty); + clear_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags); + wake_up(&tty->read_wait); + } + clear_bit(TTY_FLUSHING, &tty->flags); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags); tty_ldisc_deref(disc); |