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As Ilya Zykov identified in his patch 'PROBLEM: Race condition in tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc()', a race condition exists which allows a parallel flush_to_ldisc() to flush and free the tty flip buffers while those buffers are in-use. For example, CPU 0 | CPU 1 | CPU 2 | flush_to_ldisc() | | grab spin lock | tty_buffer_flush() | | flush_to_ldisc() wait for spin lock | | wait for spin lock | if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | while (next flip buffer) | | ... | | drop spin lock | grab spin lock | | if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING) | receive_buf() | drop spin lock | | | | grab spin lock | | if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING)) | | __tty_buffer_flush() CPU 2 has just flushed and freed all tty flip buffers while CPU 1 is transferring data from the head flip buffer. The original patch was rejected under the assumption that parallel flush_to_ldisc() was not possible. Because of necessary changes to the workqueue api, work items can execute in parallel on SMP. This patch differs slightly from the original patch by testing for a pending flush _after_ each receive_buf(), since TTYP_FLUSHPENDING can only be set while the lock is dropped around receive_buf(). Reported-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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hvc | ||
ipwireless | ||
serial | ||
vt | ||
amiserial.c | ||
bfin_jtag_comm.c | ||
cyclades.c | ||
ehv_bytechan.c | ||
goldfish.c | ||
isicom.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Makefile | ||
metag_da.c | ||
moxa.c | ||
moxa.h | ||
mxser.c | ||
mxser.h | ||
n_gsm.c | ||
n_hdlc.c | ||
n_r3964.c | ||
n_tracerouter.c | ||
n_tracesink.c | ||
n_tracesink.h | ||
n_tty.c | ||
nozomi.c | ||
pty.c | ||
rocket_int.h | ||
rocket.c | ||
rocket.h | ||
synclink_gt.c | ||
synclink.c | ||
synclinkmp.c | ||
sysrq.c | ||
tty_audit.c | ||
tty_buffer.c | ||
tty_io.c | ||
tty_ioctl.c | ||
tty_ldisc.c | ||
tty_mutex.c | ||
tty_port.c |