tty: Fix race condition if flushing tty flip buffers
As Ilya Zykov identified in his patch 'PROBLEM: Race condition in
tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc()', a race condition exists
which allows a parallel flush_to_ldisc() to flush and free the tty
flip buffers while those buffers are in-use. For example,
CPU 0 | CPU 1 | CPU 2
| flush_to_ldisc() |
| grab spin lock |
tty_buffer_flush() | | flush_to_ldisc()
wait for spin lock | | wait for spin lock
| if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) |
| while (next flip buffer) |
| ... |
| drop spin lock |
grab spin lock | |
if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | |
set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING) | receive_buf() |
drop spin lock | |
| | grab spin lock
| | if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING))
| | if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING))
| | __tty_buffer_flush()
CPU 2 has just flushed and freed all tty flip buffers while CPU 1 is
transferring data from the head flip buffer.
The original patch was rejected under the assumption that parallel
flush_to_ldisc() was not possible. Because of necessary changes to
the workqueue api, work items can execute in parallel on SMP.
This patch differs slightly from the original patch by testing for
a pending flush _after_ each receive_buf(), since TTYP_FLUSHPENDING
can only be set while the lock is dropped around receive_buf().
Change-Id: Iffe9515db564931438d00aaf9319cc20dfb7fd80
Reported-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Git-commit: 39f610e40eecc39e4c34e047fd6904ca6b525520
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org: backport to kernel 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
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