tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf
commit b027e2298bd588d6fa36ed2eda97447fb3eac078 upstream.
There can be a race, if receive_buf call comes before
tty initialization completes in n_tty_open and tty->disc_data
may be NULL.
CPU0 CPU1
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000|n_tty_receive_buf_common() n_tty_open()
-001|n_tty_receive_buf2() tty_ldisc_open.isra.3()
-002|tty_ldisc_receive_buf(inline) tty_ldisc_setup()
Using ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev till disc_data
initializes completely.
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
3 files changed