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2022-07-29tty: use new tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer() in pty_write()Jiri Slaby1-0/+31
commit a501ab75e7624d133a5a3c7ec010687c8b961d23 upstream. There is a race in pty_write(). pty_write() can be called in parallel with e.g. ioctl(TIOCSTI) or ioctl(TCXONC) which also inserts chars to the buffer. Provided, tty_flip_buffer_push() in pty_write() is called outside the lock, it can commit inconsistent tail. This can lead to out of bounds writes and other issues. See the Link below. To fix this, we have to introduce a new helper called tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer(). It does both tty_insert_flip_string() and tty_flip_buffer_commit() under the port lock. It also calls queue_work(), but outside the lock. See 71a174b39f10 (pty: do tty_flip_buffer_push without port->lock in pty_write) for the reasons. Keep the helper internal-only (in drivers' tty.h). It is not intended to be used widely. Link: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q2/155 Fixes: 71a174b39f10 (pty: do tty_flip_buffer_push without port->lock in pty_write) Cc: 一只狗 <chennbnbnb@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707082558.9250-2-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-29tty: extract tty_flip_buffer_commit() from tty_flip_buffer_push()Jiri Slaby1-5/+10
commit 716b10580283fda66f2b88140e3964f8a7f9da89 upstream. We will need this new helper in the next patch. Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: 一只狗 <chennbnbnb@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707082558.9250-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-29tty: drop tty_schedule_flip()Jiri Slaby1-22/+8
commit 5db96ef23bda6c2a61a51693c85b78b52d03f654 upstream. Since commit a9c3f68f3cd8d (tty: Fix low_latency BUG) in 2014, tty_flip_buffer_push() is only a wrapper to tty_schedule_flip(). All users were converted in the previous patches, so remove tty_schedule_flip() completely while inlining its body into tty_flip_buffer_push(). One less exported function. Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211122111648.30379-4-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-14tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lockQi Zheng1-1/+2
[ Upstream commit 6b9dbedbe3499fef862c4dff5217cf91f34e43b3 ] pty_write() invokes kmalloc() which may invoke a normal printk() to print failure message. This can cause a deadlock in the scenario reported by syz-bot below: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 ---- ---- ---- lock(console_owner); lock(&port_lock_key); lock(&port->lock); lock(&port_lock_key); lock(&port->lock); lock(console_owner); As commit dbdda842fe96 ("printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes") said, such deadlock can be prevented by using printk_deferred() in kmalloc() (which is invoked in the section guarded by the port->lock). But there are too many printk() on the kmalloc() path, and kmalloc() can be called from anywhere, so changing printk() to printk_deferred() is too complicated and inelegant. Therefore, this patch chooses to specify __GFP_NOWARN to kmalloc(), so that printk() will not be called, and this deadlock problem can be avoided. Syzbot reported the following lockdep error: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.4.143-00237-g08ccc19a-dirty #10 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ syz-executor.4/29420 is trying to acquire lock: ffffffff8aedb2a0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:1752 [inline] ffffffff8aedb2a0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: vprintk_emit+0x2ca/0x470 kernel/printk/printk.c:2023 but task is already holding lock: ffff8880119c9158 (&port->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: pty_write+0xf4/0x1f0 drivers/tty/pty.c:120 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (&port->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}: __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159 tty_port_tty_get drivers/tty/tty_port.c:288 [inline] <-- lock(&port->lock); tty_port_default_wakeup+0x1d/0xb0 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:47 serial8250_tx_chars+0x530/0xa80 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1767 serial8250_handle_irq.part.0+0x31f/0x3d0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1854 serial8250_handle_irq drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1827 [inline] <-- lock(&port_lock_key); serial8250_default_handle_irq+0xb2/0x220 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1870 serial8250_interrupt+0xfd/0x200 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:126 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x109/0xa50 kernel/irq/handle.c:156 [...] -> #1 (&port_lock_key){-.-.}-{2:2}: __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159 serial8250_console_write+0x184/0xa40 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3198 <-- lock(&port_lock_key); call_console_drivers kernel/printk/printk.c:1819 [inline] console_unlock+0x8cb/0xd00 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504 vprintk_emit+0x1b5/0x470 kernel/printk/printk.c:2024 <-- lock(console_owner); vprintk_func+0x8d/0x250 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:394 printk+0xba/0xed kernel/printk/printk.c:2084 register_console+0x8b3/0xc10 kernel/printk/printk.c:2829 univ8250_console_init+0x3a/0x46 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:681 console_init+0x49d/0x6d3 kernel/printk/printk.c:2915 start_kernel+0x5e9/0x879 init/main.c:713 secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:241 -> #0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}: [...] lock_acquire+0x127/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4734 console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:1773 [inline] <-- lock(console_owner); vprintk_emit+0x307/0x470 kernel/printk/printk.c:2023 vprintk_func+0x8d/0x250 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:394 printk+0xba/0xed kernel/printk/printk.c:2084 fail_dump lib/fault-inject.c:45 [inline] should_fail+0x67b/0x7c0 lib/fault-inject.c:144 __should_failslab+0x152/0x1c0 mm/failslab.c:33 should_failslab+0x5/0x10 mm/slab_common.c:1224 slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:468 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2723 [inline] slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2807 [inline] __kmalloc+0x72/0x300 mm/slub.c:3871 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline] tty_buffer_alloc+0x23f/0x2a0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:175 __tty_buffer_request_room+0x156/0x2a0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:273 tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0x93/0x250 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:318 tty_insert_flip_string include/linux/tty_flip.h:37 [inline] pty_write+0x126/0x1f0 drivers/tty/pty.c:122 <-- lock(&port->lock); n_tty_write+0xa7a/0xfc0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2356 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:961 [inline] tty_write+0x512/0x930 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1045 __vfs_write+0x76/0x100 fs/read_write.c:494 [...] other info that might help us debug this: Chain exists of: console_owner --> &port_lock_key --> &port->lock Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220511061951.1114-2-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510113809.80626-2-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Fixes: b6da31b2c07c ("tty: Fix data race in tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-11-26tty: tty_buffer: Fix the softlockup issue in flush_to_ldiscGuanghui Feng1-0/+3
[ Upstream commit 3968ddcf05fb4b9409cd1859feb06a5b0550a1c1 ] When running ltp testcase(ltp/testcases/kernel/pty/pty04.c) with arm64, there is a soft lockup, which look like this one: Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ec show_stack+0x24/0x30 dump_stack+0xd0/0x128 panic+0x15c/0x374 watchdog_timer_fn+0x2b8/0x304 __run_hrtimer+0x88/0x2c0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0xa4/0x120 hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x270 arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x50 handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x94/0x220 __handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf0 gic_handle_irq+0x84/0xfc el1_irq+0xc8/0x180 slip_unesc+0x80/0x214 [slip] tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x64/0x80 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x50/0x90 flush_to_ldisc+0xbc/0x110 process_one_work+0x1d4/0x4b0 worker_thread+0x180/0x430 kthread+0x11c/0x120 In the testcase pty04, The first process call the write syscall to send data to the pty master. At the same time, the workqueue will do the flush_to_ldisc to pop data in a loop until there is no more data left. When the sender and workqueue running in different core, the sender sends data fastly in full time which will result in workqueue doing work in loop for a long time and occuring softlockup in flush_to_ldisc with kernel configured without preempt. So I add need_resched check and cond_resched in the flush_to_ldisc loop to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Guanghui Feng <guanghuifeng@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1633961304-24759-1-git-send-email-guanghuifeng@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-04-05tty: increase the default flip buffer limit to 2*640KManfred Schlaegl1-1/+1
[ Upstream commit 7ab57b76ebf632bf2231ccabe26bea33868118c6 ] We increase the default limit for buffer memory allocation by a factor of 10 to 640K to prevent data loss when using fast serial interfaces. For example when using RS485 without flow-control at speeds of 1Mbit/s an upwards we've run into problems such as applications being too slow to read out this buffer (on embedded devices based on imx53 or imx6). If you want to write transmitted data to a slow SD card and thus have realtime requirements, this limit can become a problem. That shouldn't be the case and 640K buffers fix such problems for us. This value is a maximum limit for allocation only. It has no effect on systems that currently run fine. When transmission is slow enough applications and hardware can keep up and increasing this limit doesn't change anything. It only _allows_ to allocate more than 2*64K in cases we currently fail to allocate memory despite having some. Signed-off-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@ginzinger.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2018-12-01tty: wipe buffer.Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
commit c9a8e5fce009e3c601a43c49ea9dbcb25d1ffac5 upstream. After we are done with the tty buffer, zero it out. Reported-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build> Tested-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Tested-by: Daniel Zatovic <daniel.zatovic@gmail.com> Tested-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-08tty: add SPDX identifiers to all remaining files in drivers/tty/Greg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. Update the drivers/tty files files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com> Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru> Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <kernel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com> Cc: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@gmail.com> Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Cc: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org> Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> Cc: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de> Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> Cc: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-04tty: fix tty_ldisc_receive_buf() documentationJohan Hovold1-1/+1
The tty_ldisc_receive_buf() helper returns the number of bytes processed so drop the bogus "not" from the kernel doc comment. Fixes: 8d082cd300ab ("tty: Unify receive_buf() code paths") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-02tty: fix __tty_insert_flip_char regressionArnd Bergmann1-1/+2
Sergey noticed a small but fatal mistake in __tty_insert_flip_char, leading to an oops in an interrupt handler when using any serial port. The problem is that I accidentally took the tty_buffer pointer before calling __tty_buffer_request_room(), which replaces the buffer. This moves the pointer lookup to the right place after allocating the new buffer space. Fixes: 979990c62848 ("tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char() fast path") Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-30tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char() slow pathArnd Bergmann1-2/+3
While working on improving the fast path of tty_insert_flip_char(), I noticed that by calling tty_buffer_request_room(), we needlessly move to the separate flag buffer mode for the tty, even when all characters use TTY_NORMAL as the flag. This changes the code to call __tty_buffer_request_room() with the correct flag, which will then allocate a regular buffer when it rounds out of space but no special flags have been used. I'm guessing that this is the behavior that Peter Hurley intended when he introduced the compacted flip buffers. Fixes: acc0f67f307f ("tty: Halve flip buffer GFP_ATOMIC memory consumption") Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-30tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char() fast pathArnd Bergmann1-0/+24
kernelci.org reports a crazy stack usage for the VT code when CONFIG_KASAN is enabled: drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c: In function 'kbd_keycode': drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1452:1: error: the frame size of 2240 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=] The problem is that tty_insert_flip_char() gets inlined many times into kbd_keycode(), and also into other functions, and each copy requires 128 bytes for stack redzone to check for a possible out-of-bounds access on the 'ch' and 'flags' arguments that are passed into tty_insert_flip_string_flags as a variable-length string. This introduces a new __tty_insert_flip_char() function for the slow path, which receives the two arguments by value. This completely avoids the problem and the stack usage goes back down to around 100 bytes. Without KASAN, this is also slightly better, as we don't have to spill the arguments to the stack but can simply pass 'ch' and 'flag' in registers, saving a few bytes in .text for each call site. This should be backported to linux-4.0 or later, which first introduced the stack sanitizer in the kernel. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: c420f167db8c ("kasan: enable stack instrumentation") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-03tty_port: Add port client functionsRob Herring1-14/+3
Introduce a client (upward direction) operations struct for tty_port clients. Initially supported operations are for receiving data and write wake-up. This will allow for having clients other than an ldisc. Convert the calls to the ldisc to use the client ops as the default operations. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Tested-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-19tty: constify tty_ldisc_receive_buf buffer pointerRob Herring1-1/+1
This is needed to work with the client operations which uses const ptrs. Really, the flags pointer could be const, too, but this would be a tree wide fix. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-05-01Fix OpenSSH pty regression on closeBrian Bloniarz1-28/+6
OpenSSH expects the (non-blocking) read() of pty master to return EAGAIN only if it has received all of the slave-side output after it has received SIGCHLD. This used to work on pre-3.12 kernels. This fix effectively forces non-blocking read() and poll() to block for parallel i/o to complete for all ttys. It also unwinds these changes: 1) f8747d4a466ab2cafe56112c51b3379f9fdb7a12 tty: Fix pty master read() after slave closes 2) 52bce7f8d4fc633c9a9d0646eef58ba6ae9a3b73 pty, n_tty: Simplify input processing on final close 3) 1a48632ffed61352a7810ce089dc5a8bcd505a60 pty: Fix input race when closing Inspired by analysis and patch from Marc Aurele La France <tsi@tuyoix.net> Reported-by: Volth <openssh@volth.com> Reported-by: Marc Aurele La France <tsi@tuyoix.net> BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52 BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2492 Signed-off-by: Brian Bloniarz <brian.bloniarz@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-01-29tty: Unify receive_buf() code pathsPeter Hurley1-11/+28
Instead of two distinct code branches for receive_buf() handling, use tty_ldisc_receive_buf() as the single code path. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-12-13tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()Peter Hurley1-1/+1
A line discipline which does not define a receive_buf() method can can cause a GPF if data is ever received [1]. Oddly, this was known to the author of n_tracesink in 2011, but never fixed. [1] GPF report BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) PGD 3752d067 PUD 37a7b067 PMD 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 148 Comm: kworker/u10:2 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc2+ #51 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc task: ffff88006da94440 ti: ffff88006db60000 task.ti: ffff88006db60000 RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) RSP: 0018:ffff88006db67b50 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000102 RBX: ffff88003ab32f88 RCX: 0000000000000102 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88003ab330a6 RDI: ffff88003aabd388 RBP: ffff88006db67c48 R08: ffff88003ab32f9c R09: ffff88003ab31fb0 R10: ffff88003ab32fa8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: ffff88006db67c20 R14: ffffffff863df820 R15: ffff88003ab31fb8 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000037938000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffffffff829f46f1 ffff88006da94bf8 ffff88006da94bf8 0000000000000000 ffff88003ab31fb0 ffff88003aabd438 ffff88003ab31ff8 ffff88006430fd90 ffff88003ab32f9c ffffed0007557a87 1ffff1000db6cf78 ffff88003ab32078 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8127cf91>] process_one_work+0x8f1/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2030 [<ffffffff8127df14>] worker_thread+0xd4/0x1180 kernel/workqueue.c:2162 [<ffffffff8128faaf>] kthread+0x1cf/0x270 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1302 [<ffffffff852a7c2f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:468 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [< (null)>] (null) RSP <ffff88006db67b50> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace a587f8947e54d6ea ]--- Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-18tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workersPeter Hurley1-1/+1
The commonly accepted wisdom that scheduling work on the same cpu that handled interrupt i/o benefits from cache-locality is only true if the cpu is idle (since bound kworkers are often the highest vruntime and thus the lowest priority). Measurements of scheduling via the unbound queue show lowered worst-case latency responses of up to 5x over bound workqueue, without increase in average latency or throughput. pty i/o test measurements show >3x (!) reduced total running time; tests previously taking ~8s now complete in <2.5s. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-18tty: Abstract tty buffer workPeter Hurley1-0/+10
Introduce API functions to restart and cancel tty buffer work, rather than manipulate buffer work directly. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race on tty_buffer.commitDmitry Vyukov1-3/+12
Race on buffer data happens when newly committed data is picked up by an old flush work in the following scenario: __tty_buffer_request_room does a plain write of tail->commit, no barriers were executed before that. At this point flush_to_ldisc reads this new value of commit, and reads buffer data, no barriers in between. The committed buffer data is not necessary visible to flush_to_ldisc. Similar bug happens when tty_schedule_flip commits data. Update commit with smp_store_release and read commit with smp_load_acquire, as it is commit that signals data readiness. This is orthogonal to the existing synchronization on tty_buffer.next, which is required to not dismiss a buffer with unconsumed data. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race in tty_buffer_flushDmitry Vyukov1-1/+4
tty_buffer_flush frees not acquired buffers. As the result, for example, read of b->size in tty_buffer_free can return garbage value which will lead to a huge buffer hanging in the freelist. This is just the benignest manifestation of freeing of a not acquired object. If the object is passed to kfree, heap can be corrupted. Acquire visibility over the buffer before freeing it. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race in flush_to_ldiscDmitry Vyukov1-1/+1
flush_to_ldisc reads port->itty and checks that it is not NULL, concurrently release_tty sets port->itty to NULL. It is possible that flush_to_ldisc loads port->itty once, ensures that it is not NULL, but then reloads it again and uses. The second load can already return NULL, which will cause a crash. Use READ_ONCE to read port->itty. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-07-24tty: buffers: Move hidden buffer index advance into outer loopPeter Hurley1-1/+1
The advance of the 'read' buffer index belongs in the outer flip buffer consume loop, with the other buffer index arithmetic. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-07-24tty: Replace smp_rmb/smp_wmb with smp_load_acquire/smp_store_releasePeter Hurley1-6/+4
Clarify flip buffer producer/consumer operation; the use of smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release() more clearly indicates which memory access requires a barrier. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-19Merge 4.1-rc4 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-14/+27
This resolves some tty driver merge issues. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-10pty: Fix input race when closingPeter Hurley1-14/+27
A read() from a pty master may mistakenly indicate EOF (errno == -EIO) after the pty slave has closed, even though input data remains to be read. For example, pty slave | input worker | pty master | | | | n_tty_read() pty_write() | | input avail? no add data | | sleep schedule worker --->| | . |---> flush_to_ldisc() | . pty_close() | fill read buffer | . wait for worker | wakeup reader --->| . | read buffer full? |---> input avail ? yes |<--- yes - exit worker | copy 4096 bytes to user TTY_OTHER_CLOSED <---| |<--- kick worker | | **** New read() before worker starts **** | | n_tty_read() | | input avail? no | | TTY_OTHER_CLOSED? yes | | return -EIO Several conditions are required to trigger this race: 1. the ldisc read buffer must become full so the input worker exits 2. the read() count parameter must be >= 4096 so the ldisc read buffer is empty 3. the subsequent read() occurs before the kicked worker has processed more input However, the underlying cause of the race is that data is pipelined, while tty state is not; ie., data already written by the pty slave end is not yet visible to the pty master end, but state changes by the pty slave end are visible to the pty master end immediately. Pipeline the TTY_OTHER_CLOSED state through input worker to the reader. 1. Introduce TTY_OTHER_DONE which is set by the input worker when TTY_OTHER_CLOSED is set and either the input buffers are flushed or input processing has completed. Readers/polls are woken when TTY_OTHER_DONE is set. 2. Reader/poll checks TTY_OTHER_DONE instead of TTY_OTHER_CLOSED. 3. A new input worker is started from pty_close() after setting TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, which ensures the TTY_OTHER_DONE state will be set if the last input worker is already finished (or just about to exit). Remove tty_flush_to_ldisc(); no in-tree callers. Fixes: 52bce7f8d4fc ("pty, n_tty: Simplify input processing on final close") Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96311 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429756 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19+ Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-10tty: tty_buffer.c: move assignment out of if () blockGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+2
We should not be doing assignments within an if () block so fix up the code to not do this. change was created using Coccinelle. CC: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-02-02pty: Fix buffer flush deadlockPeter Hurley1-0/+6
The pty driver does not clear its write buffer when commanded. This is to avoid an apparent deadlock between parallel flushes from both pty ends; specifically when handling either BRK or INTR input. However, parallel flushes from this source is not possible since the pty master can never be set to BRKINT or ISIG. Parallel flushes from other sources are possible but these do not threaten deadlocks. Annotate the tty buffer mutex for lockdep to represent the nested tty_buffer locking which occurs when the pty slave is processing input (its buffer mutex held) and receives INTR or BRK and acquires the linked tty buffer mutex via tty_buffer_flush(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-06tty: Flush ldisc buffer atomically with tty flip buffersPeter Hurley1-2/+8
tty_ldisc_flush() first clears the line discipline input buffer, then clears the tty flip buffers. However, this allows for existing data in the tty flip buffers to be added after the ldisc input buffer has been cleared, but before the flip buffers have been cleared. Add an optional ldisc parameter to tty_buffer_flush() to allow tty_ldisc_flush() to pass the ldisc to clear. NB: Initially, the plan was to do this automatically in tty_buffer_flush(). However, an audit of the behavior of existing line disciplines showed that performing a ldisc buffer flush on ioctl(TCFLSH) was not always the outcome. For example, some line disciplines have flush_buffer() methods but not ioctl() methods, so a ->flush_buffer() command would be unexpected. Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-23Staging: speakup: Update __speakup_paste_selection() tty (ab)usage to match vtBen Hutchings1-0/+2
This function is largely a duplicate of paste_selection() in drivers/tty/vt/selection.c, but with its own selection state. The speakup selection mechanism should really be merged with vt. For now, apply the changes from 'TTY: vt, fix paste_selection ldisc handling', 'tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendly', and 'tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()'. References: https://bugs.debian.org/735202 References: https://bugs.debian.org/744015 Reported-by: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8 but needs backporting for < 3.12 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-04tty: Fix lockless tty buffer racePeter Hurley1-3/+14
Commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03, "tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldisc" correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), where the consumer flush_to_ldisc() prematurely advances the head before consuming the last of the data committed. For example: CPU 0 | CPU 1 __tty_buffer_request_room | flush_to_ldisc ... | ... | count = head->commit - head->read n = tty_buffer_alloc() | b->commit = b->used | b->next = n | | if (!count) /* T */ | if (head->next == NULL) /* F */ | buf->head = head->next In this case, buf->head has been advanced but head->commit may have been updated with a new value. Instead of reintroducing an unnecessary lock, fix the race locklessly. Read the commit-next pair in the reverse order of writing, which guarantees the commit value read is the latest value written if the head is advancing. Reported-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x+ Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-04Revert "tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and ↵Peter Hurley1-14/+2
flush_to_ldisc" This reverts commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03. Although the commit correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), the commit fixes the race with an unnecessary spinlock in a lockless algorithm. The follow-on commit, "tty: Fix lockless tty buffer race" fixes the race locklessly. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-25tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldiscManfred Schlaegl1-2/+14
The race was introduced while development of linux-3.11 by e8437d7ecbc50198705331449367d401ebb3181f and e9975fdec0138f1b2a85b9624e41660abd9865d4. Originally it was found and reproduced on linux-3.12.15 and linux-3.12.15-rt25, by sending 500 byte blocks with 115kbaud to the target uart in a loop with 100 milliseconds delay. In short: 1. The consumer flush_to_ldisc is on to remove the head tty_buffer. 2. The producer adds a number of bytes, so that a new tty_buffer must be allocated and added by __tty_buffer_request_room. 3. The consumer removes the head tty_buffer element, without handling newly committed data. Detailed example: * Initial buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=240; next=NULL * Consumer: ''flush_to_ldisc'' * consumed 10 Byte * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL {{{ count = head->commit - head->read; // count = 0 if (!count) { // enter // INTERRUPTED BY PRODUCER -> if (head->next == NULL) break; buf->head = head->next; tty_buffer_free(port, head); continue; } }}} * Producer: tty_insert_flip_... 10 bytes + tty_flip_buffer_push * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL * added 6 bytes: head-element filled to maximum. * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=256; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL * added 4 bytes: __tty_buffer_request_room is called * buffer: * Head -> 0: used=256; commit=256; read=250; next=1 * Tail -> 1: used=4; commit=0; read=250 next=NULL * push (tty_flip_buffer_push) * buffer: * Head -> 0: used=256; commit=256; read=250; next=1 * Tail -> 1: used=4; commit=4; read=250 next=NULL * Consumer {{{ count = head->commit - head->read; if (!count) { // INTERRUPTED BY PRODUCER <- if (head->next == NULL) // -> no break break; buf->head = head->next; tty_buffer_free(port, head); // ERROR: tty_buffer head freed -> 6 bytes lost continue; } }}} This patch reintroduces a spin_lock to protect this case. Perhaps later a lock-less solution could be found. Signed-off-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-03-01tty: Fix low_latency BUGPeter Hurley1-16/+4
The user-settable knob, low_latency, has been the source of several BUG reports which stem from flush_to_ldisc() running in interrupt context. Since 3.12, which added several sleeping locks (termios_rwsem and buf->lock) to the input processing path, the frequency of these BUG reports has increased. Note that changes in 3.12 did not introduce this regression; sleeping locks were first added to the input processing path with the removal of the BKL from N_TTY in commit a88a69c91256418c5907c2f1f8a0ec0a36f9e6cc, 'n_tty: Fix loss of echoed characters and remove bkl from n_tty' and later in commit 38db89799bdf11625a831c5af33938dcb11908b6, 'tty: throttling race fix'. Since those changes, executing flush_to_ldisc() in interrupt_context (ie, low_latency set), is unsafe. However, since most devices do not validate if the low_latency setting is appropriate for the context (process or interrupt) in which they receive data, some reports are due to misconfiguration. Further, serial dma devices for which dma fails, resort to interrupt receiving as a backup without resetting low_latency. Historically, low_latency was used to force wake-up the reading process rather than wait for the next scheduler tick. The effect was to trim multiple milliseconds of latency from when the process would receive new data. Recent tests [1] have shown that the reading process now receives data with only 10's of microseconds latency without low_latency set. Remove the low_latency rx steering from tty_flip_buffer_push(); however, leave the knob as an optional hint to drivers that can tune their rx fifos and such like. Cleanup stale code comments regarding low_latency. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/434 "Yay.. thats an annoying historical pain in the butt gone." -- Alan Cox Reported-by: Beat Bolli <bbolli@ewanet.ch> Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Hal Murray <murray+fedora@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x+ Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-08tty: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>Paul Gortmaker1-1/+0
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to code getting copied from one driver to the next. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Halve flip buffer GFP_ATOMIC memory consumptionPeter Hurley1-10/+35
tty flip buffers use GFP_ATOMIC allocations for received data which is to be processed by the line discipline. For each byte received, an extra byte is used to indicate the error status of that byte. Instead, if the received data is error-free, encode the entire buffer without status bytes. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Fix stale tty_buffer_flush() commentPeter Hurley1-3/+1
Commit d7a68be4f265be10e24be931c257af30ca55566b, 'tty: Only perform flip buffer flush from tty_buffer_flush()', removed buffer flushing from flush_to_ldisc(). Fix function header comment which describes the former behavior. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09staging/fwserial: Rip out rx bufferingPeter Hurley1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Remove tty_prepare_flip_string_flags()Peter Hurley1-28/+0
There is no in-tree user of tty_prepare_flip_string_flags(); remove. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Rename tty buffer memory_used fieldPeter Hurley1-6/+6
Trim up the memory_used field name to mem_used. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Enable configurable tty flip buffer limitPeter Hurley1-3/+21
Allow driver to configure its maximum flip buffer memory consumption/limit. This is necessary for very-high speed line rates (in excess of 10MB/sec) because the flip buffers can be saturated before the line discipline has a chance to throttle the input. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Remove private constant from global namespacePeter Hurley1-0/+10
TTY_BUFFER_PAGE is only used within drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c; relocate to that file scope. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()Peter Hurley1-13/+48
Convert the tty_buffer_flush() exclusion mechanism to a public interface - tty_buffer_lock/unlock_exclusive() - and use the interface to safely write the paste selection to the line discipline. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Merge __tty_flush_buffer() into lone call sitePeter Hurley1-23/+6
__tty_flush_buffer() is now only called by tty_flush_buffer(); merge functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Use non-atomic state to signal flip buffer flush pendingPeter Hurley1-3/+4
Atomic bit ops are no longer required to indicate a flip buffer flush is pending, as the flush_mutex is sufficient barrier. Remove the unnecessary port .iflags field and localize flip buffer state to struct tty_bufhead. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Only perform flip buffer flush from tty_buffer_flush()Peter Hurley1-42/+21
Now that dropping the buffer lock is not necessary (as result of converting the spin lock to a mutex), the flip buffer flush no longer needs to be handled by the buffer work. Simply signal a flush is required; the buffer work will exit the i/o loop, which allows tty_buffer_flush() to proceed. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Ensure single-threaded flip buffer consumer with mutexPeter Hurley1-21/+19
The buffer work may race with parallel tty_buffer_flush. Use a mutex to guarantee exclusive modify access to the head flip buffer. Remove the unneeded spin lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Make driver-side flip buffers locklessPeter Hurley1-27/+4
Driver-side flip buffer input is already single-threaded; 'publish' the .next link as the last operation on the tail buffer so the 'consumer' sees the already-completed flip buffer. The commit buffer index is already 'published' by driver-side functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Track flip buffer memory limit atomicallyPeter Hurley1-6/+31
Lockless flip buffers require atomically updating the bytes-in-use watermark. The pty driver also peeks at the watermark value to limit memory consumption to a much lower value than the default; query the watermark with new fn, tty_buffer_space_avail(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24tty: Simplify flip buffer list with 0-sized sentinelPeter Hurley1-31/+18
Use a 0-sized sentinel to avoid assigning the head ptr from the driver side thread. This also eliminates testing head/tail for NULL. When the sentinel is first 'consumed' by the buffer work (or by tty_buffer_flush()), it is detached from the list but not freed nor added to the free list. Both buffer work and tty_buffer_flush() continue to preserve at least 1 flip buffer to which head & tail is pointed. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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