tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline

Historically the N_TTY driver could never fail but this has become broken over
time. Rather than trying to rewrite half the ldisc layer to fix the breakage
introduce a second level of fallback with an N_NULL ldisc which cannot fail,
and thus restore the guarantees required by the ldisc layer.

We still try and fail to N_TTY first. It's much more useful to find yourself
back in your old ldisc (first attempt) or in N_TTY (second attempt), and while
I'm not aware of any code out there that makes those assumptions it's good to
drive(r) defensively.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 80 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_null.c b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d63261c36e42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/tty.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/*
+ *  n_null.c - Null line discipline used in the failure path
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) Intel 2017
+ *
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
+ *  as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ */
+
+static int n_null_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void n_null_close(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+}
+
+static ssize_t n_null_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
+			   unsigned char __user * buf, size_t nr)
+{
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
+static ssize_t n_null_write(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
+			    const unsigned char *buf, size_t nr)
+{
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
+static void n_null_receivebuf(struct tty_struct *tty,
+				 const unsigned char *cp, char *fp,
+				 int cnt)
+{
+}
+
+static struct tty_ldisc_ops null_ldisc = {
+	.owner		=	THIS_MODULE,
+	.magic		=	TTY_LDISC_MAGIC,
+	.name		=	"n_null",
+	.open		=	n_null_open,
+	.close		=	n_null_close,
+	.read		=	n_null_read,
+	.write		=	n_null_write,
+	.receive_buf	=	n_null_receivebuf
+};
+
+static int __init n_null_init(void)
+{
+	BUG_ON(tty_register_ldisc(N_NULL, &null_ldisc));
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit n_null_exit(void)
+{
+	tty_unregister_ldisc(N_NULL);
+}
+
+module_init(n_null_init);
+module_exit(n_null_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
+MODULE_ALIAS_LDISC(N_NULL);
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Null ldisc driver");