USB: usb_serial: only allow sysrq on a console port
The only time a sysrq should get processed is if the attached device
is a console. This is intended to protect sysrq execution on a host
connected with a terminal program.
Here is the problem scenario:
host A <-- rs232 link --> host B
Host A is using mincom and a usb pl2303 device to connect to host b
which is a linux system with a usb pl2303 device acting as the serial
console. When host B is rebooted the pl2303 emits random junk
characters on reset. These character sequences contain serial break
signals most of the time and when translated to a sysrq have caused
host A to get random processes killed, reboots or power down.
It is true that in this setup with this patch host B might still have
the same problem as host A if you reboot host A. In most cases host A
is a development host which seldom gets rebooted, and you could turn
off sysrq temporarily on host B if you need to reboot host A.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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