Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4
Date	2017-05-31 13:20 +0200
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On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:39:23AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >> >> I'll think about possible solutions, but I have no prior experience
> >> >> with the tty code. In the meantime syzkaller also hit a couple of
> >> >> other fun tty/pty bugs including a write/ioctl race that results in
> >> >> buffer overflow :-/
> >
> > There are several of those, including some of that have been documented
> > for years but nobody ever volunteered to fix - in particular all the
> > interfaces that push characters to the tty other than via the normal
> > interrupt receive path are dodgy (console selection in particular)
> >
> > The original tty model btw was that setting the ldisc to n_tty cannot
> > fail, and the structure allocated was smaller than a page size so was
> > safe.
> >
> > The simple way to fix it is to restore that behaviour by adding a 'null'
> > ldisc that we can fail to instead of N_TTY since the N_TTY failback path
> > is long broken.
> 
> Greg, what do you think about this patch? Are you ready to accept
> something like this?
> Definitely shorter than changing all drivers.

Yes, it looks reasonable to me.

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Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-05-30 11:30 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2017-05-30 14:10 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-05-31 10:40 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-31 13:20 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2017-05-31 17:10 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-06-01 14:10 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver fixes for 4.11-rc4 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-02 02:10 +0200

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