We need to compute the uart state only on the first open. This is
usually what is done in the ->install hook. serial_core used to do this
in ->open on every open. So move it to ->install.
As a side effect, it ensures the state is set properly in the window
after tty_init_dev is called, but before uart_open. This fixes a bunch
of races between tty_open and flush_to_ldisc we were dealing with
recently.
One of such bugs was attempted to fix in commit fedb576064 (serial:
fix race between flush_to_ldisc and tty_open), but it only took care of
a couple of functions (uart_start and uart_unthrottle). I was able to
reproduce the crash on a SLE system, but in uart_write_room which is
also called from flush_to_ldisc via process_echoes. I was *unable* to
reproduce the bug locally. It is due to having this patch in my queue
since 2012!
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G L 4.12.14-396-default #1 SLE15-SP1 (unreleased)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c89-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
task: ffff8800427d8040 task.stack: ffff8800427f0000
RIP: 0010:uart_write_room+0xc4/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffff8800427f7088 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 00000000000000ee RDI: ffff88003888bd90
RBP: ffffffffb9545850 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000400
R10: ffff8800427d825c R11: 000000000000006e R12: 1ffff100084fee12
R13: ffffc900004c5000 R14: ffff88003888bb28 R15: 0000000000000178
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880043300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000561da0794148 CR3: 000000000ebf4000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
tty_write_room+0x6d/0xc0
__process_echoes+0x55/0x870
n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x105e/0x26d0
tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0xb7/0x1c0
tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x107/0x180
flush_to_ldisc+0x35d/0x5c0
...
0 in rbx means tty->driver_data is NULL in uart_write_room. 0x178 is
tried to be dereferenced (0x178 >> 3 is 0x2f in rdx) at
uart_write_room+0xc4. 0x178 is exactly (struct uart_state *)NULL->refcount
used in uart_port_lock from uart_write_room.
So revert the upstream commit here as my local patch should fix the
whole family.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Wang Li <wangli39@baidu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>