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tty: Fix possible race in n_tty_read()

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Fix possible panic caused by unlocked access to tty->read_cnt in
while-loop condition in n_tty_read().

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Stanislav Kozina 2012-08-09 14:48:58 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 857196e275
commit 00aaae033e
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/tty/n_tty.c
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@ -1838,13 +1838,13 @@ static ssize_t n_tty_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
if (tty->icanon && !L_EXTPROC(tty)) {
/* N.B. avoid overrun if nr == 0 */
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
while (nr && tty->read_cnt) {
int eol;
eol = test_and_clear_bit(tty->read_tail,
tty->read_flags);
c = tty->read_buf[tty->read_tail];
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
tty->read_tail = ((tty->read_tail+1) &
(N_TTY_BUF_SIZE-1));
tty->read_cnt--;
@ -1862,15 +1862,19 @@ static ssize_t n_tty_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
if (tty_put_user(tty, c, b++)) {
retval = -EFAULT;
b--;
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
break;
}
nr--;
}
if (eol) {
tty_audit_push(tty);
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
break;
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->read_lock, flags);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->read_lock, flags);
if (retval)
break;
} else {