From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:40:01 +0000 (+1000) Subject: [PATCH] Remove race between con_open and con_close X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13~4 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f786648b89f00d4e66fe6b19beffd30e764651fc;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] Remove race between con_open and con_close [ Same race and same patch also by Steven Rostedt ] I have a laptop (G3 powerbook) which will pretty reliably hit a race between con_open and con_close late in the boot process and oops in vt_ioctl due to tty->driver_data being NULL. What happens is this: process A opens /dev/tty6; it comes into con_open() (drivers/char/vt.c) and assign a non-NULL value to tty->driver_data. Then process A closes that and concurrently process B opens /dev/tty6. Process A gets through con_close() and clears tty->driver_data, since tty->count == 1. However, before process A can decrement tty->count, we switch to process B (e.g. at the down(&tty_sem) call at drivers/char/tty_io.c line 1626). So process B gets to run and comes into con_open with tty->count == 2, as tty->count is incremented (in init_dev) before con_open is called. Because tty->count != 1, we don't set tty->driver_data. Then when the process tries to do anything with that fd, it oopses. The simple and effective fix for this is to test tty->driver_data rather than tty->count in con_open. The testing and setting of tty->driver_data is serialized with respect to the clearing of tty->driver_data in con_close by the console_sem. We can't get a situation where con_open sees tty->driver_data != NULL and then con_close on a different fd clears tty->driver_data, because tty->count is incremented before con_open is called. Thus this patch eliminates the race, and in fact with this patch my laptop doesn't oops. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras [ Same patch Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112450820432121&w=2 ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c index 30d96739fb2..665103ccaee 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt.c @@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ static int con_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp) int ret = 0; acquire_console_sem(); - if (tty->count == 1) { + if (tty->driver_data == NULL) { ret = vc_allocate(currcons); if (ret == 0) { struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[currcons].d;