linux/drivers/tty
Peter Hurley c235ccc1c4 serial: core: Fix x_char race
The UART driver is expected to clear port->x_char after
transmission while holding the port->lock. However, the serial
core fails to take the port->lock before assigning port->xchar.
This allows for the following race

CPU 0                         |  CPU 1
                              |
                              | serial8250_handle_irq
                              |   ...
                              |   serial8250_tx_chars
                              |     if (port->x_char)
                              |       serial_out(up, UART_TX, port->x_char)
uart_send_xchar               |
  port->x_char = ch           |
                              |       port->x_char = 0
  port->ops->start_tx()       |
                              |

The x_char on CPU 0 will never be sent.

Take the port->lock in uart_send_xchar() before assigning port->x_char.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-08 16:22:42 -07:00
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hvc tty: Update hypervisor tty drivers to use core stdout parsing code. 2014-06-26 17:12:23 +01:00
ipwireless tty: ipwireless: Remove tty->closing abort from ipw_open() 2014-07-10 16:06:49 -07:00
serial serial: core: Fix x_char race 2014-09-08 16:22:42 -07:00
vt Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2014-06-17' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2014-06-19 10:54:35 +10:00
amiserial.c
bfin_jtag_comm.c
cyclades.c tty: Remove tty_hung_up_p() tests from tty drivers' open() 2014-07-10 16:06:49 -07:00
ehv_bytechan.c tty: Update hypervisor tty drivers to use core stdout parsing code. 2014-06-26 17:12:23 +01:00
goldfish.c
isicom.c
Kconfig
Makefile
metag_da.c
moxa.c TTY: fix decimal printf format specifiers prefixed with 0x 2014-09-08 15:51:35 -07:00
moxa.h
mxser.c
mxser.h
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n_hdlc.c drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc 2014-05-28 13:33:18 -07:00
n_r3964.c
n_tracerouter.c
n_tracesink.c
n_tracesink.h
n_tty.c tty: Fix spurious poll() wakeups 2014-09-08 15:55:25 -07:00
nozomi.c drivers/tty/nozomi.c: Use 'nozomi_setup_memory' instead of 'setup_memory' 2014-09-08 16:09:23 -07:00
pty.c drivers: tty: Fix use-after-free in pty_common_install 2014-07-12 17:21:47 -07:00
rocket_int.h
rocket.c
rocket.h
synclink_gt.c synclink_gt: use pci_zalloc_consistent 2014-08-08 15:57:30 -07:00
synclink.c tty: Remove tty_hung_up_p() tests from tty drivers' open() 2014-07-10 16:06:49 -07:00
synclinkmp.c tty: Remove tty_hung_up_p() tests from tty drivers' open() 2014-07-10 16:06:49 -07:00
sysrq.c mm, oom: ensure memoryless node zonelist always includes zones 2014-08-06 18:01:21 -07:00
tty_audit.c
tty_buffer.c
tty_io.c tty: Fix potential use after free in release_one_tty 2014-09-08 15:55:25 -07:00
tty_ioctl.c tty: fix typo in comment of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate 2014-09-08 15:32:05 -07:00
tty_ldisc.c
tty_ldsem.c
tty_mutex.c
tty_port.c tty: Remove tty_hung_up_p() tests from tty drivers' open() 2014-07-10 16:06:49 -07:00