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commit 83d817f41070c48bc3eb7ec18e43000a548fca5c upstream. tty_ldisc_reinit() doesn't race with neither tty_ldisc_hangup() nor set_ldisc() nor tty_ldisc_release() as they use tty lock. But it races with anyone who expects line discipline to be the same after hoding read semaphore in tty_ldisc_ref(). We've seen the following crash on v4.9.108 stable: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000002260 IP: [..] n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x5f/0x86d Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc Call Trace: [..] n_tty_receive_buf2 [..] tty_ldisc_receive_buf [..] flush_to_ldisc [..] process_one_work [..] worker_thread [..] kthread [..] ret_from_fork tty_ldisc_reinit() should be called with ldisc_sem hold for writing, which will protect any reader against line discipline changes. Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # b027e2298bd5 ("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf") Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Reported-by: syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e984d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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