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| author | Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at> | 2014-11-13 05:53:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-11-26 19:35:48 -0800 |
| commit | 8bfbe2de769afda051c56aba5450391670e769fc (patch) | |
| tree | b15c341998358b3a8df969d8240e7874980d86d8 /drivers/tty | |
| parent | 8ad3b1352693972b737607c7b9c89b56d45fea9b (diff) | |
| download | linux-8bfbe2de769afda051c56aba5450391670e769fc.tar.bz2 | |
n_tty: Fix read_buf race condition, increment read_head after pushing data
Commit 19e2ad6a09f0c06dbca19c98e5f4584269d913dd ("n_tty: Remove overflow
tests from receive_buf() path") moved the increment of read_head into
the arguments list of read_buf_addr(). Function calls represent a
sequence point in C. Therefore read_head is incremented before the
character c is placed in the buffer. Since the circular read buffer is
a lock-less design since commit 6d76bd2618535c581f1673047b8341fd291abc67
("n_tty: Make N_TTY ldisc receive path lockless"), this creates a race
condition that leads to communication errors.
This patch modifies the code to increment read_head _after_ the data
is placed in the buffer and thus fixes the race for non-SMP machines.
To fix the problem for SMP machines, memory barriers must be added in
a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c index 8358daa865e5..9e3b21624c82 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void n_tty_check_unthrottle(struct tty_struct *tty) static inline void put_tty_queue(unsigned char c, struct n_tty_data *ldata) { - *read_buf_addr(ldata, ldata->read_head++) = c; + *read_buf_addr(ldata, ldata->read_head) = c; + ldata->read_head++; } /** |