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tty: vt: selection: fix soft lockup in paste_selection()

Message ID 20230814040131.79439-1-yiyang13@huawei.com
State New
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Series tty: vt: selection: fix soft lockup in paste_selection() | expand

Commit Message

yiyang (D) Aug. 14, 2023, 4:01 a.m. UTC
Soft lockup occurs when vt device used n_null ldisc, n_null_receivebuf()
is not implemented in null_ldisc. So tty_ldisc_receive_buf always return
0 in paste_selection(), this cause deadloop and cause soft lockup.

This can be reproduced as follows:
  int ldisc = 0x1b; // 0x1b is n_null
  struct{
  	char subcode;
  	struct tiocl_selection sel;
  } data;
  date.subcode = TIOCL_SETSEL;
  data.sel.xs = 0;
  data.sel.xe = 1;
  data.sel.ys = 0;
  data.sel.ye = 1;
  data.sel.sel_mode = TIOCL_SELCHAR;
  char bytes[2] = {TIOCL_PASTESEL, 0};
  open("ttyxx", O_RDWR) // open a vt device
  ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ldisc) // set ldisc to n_null
  ioctl(fd, TIOCLINUX, &data.subcode);
  ioctl(fd, TIOCLINUX, bytes); // cause deadloop

Fix soft lockup by check if ldisc in paste_selection() is n_null.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000fe769905d315a1b7@google.com/
Fixes: 8a8dabf2dd68 ("tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline")
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Jiri Slaby Aug. 14, 2023, 6:32 a.m. UTC | #1
On 14. 08. 23, 6:01, Yi Yang wrote:
> Soft lockup occurs when vt device used n_null ldisc, n_null_receivebuf()
> is not implemented in null_ldisc. So tty_ldisc_receive_buf always return
> 0 in paste_selection(), this cause deadloop and cause soft lockup.
> 
> This can be reproduced as follows:
>    int ldisc = 0x1b; // 0x1b is n_null
>    struct{
>    	char subcode;
>    	struct tiocl_selection sel;
>    } data;
>    date.subcode = TIOCL_SETSEL;
>    data.sel.xs = 0;
>    data.sel.xe = 1;
>    data.sel.ys = 0;
>    data.sel.ye = 1;
>    data.sel.sel_mode = TIOCL_SELCHAR;
>    char bytes[2] = {TIOCL_PASTESEL, 0};
>    open("ttyxx", O_RDWR) // open a vt device
>    ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ldisc) // set ldisc to n_null
>    ioctl(fd, TIOCLINUX, &data.subcode);
>    ioctl(fd, TIOCLINUX, bytes); // cause deadloop
> 
> Fix soft lockup by check if ldisc in paste_selection() is n_null.

Ugh, no. What if another ldisc returns with 0 too?

So instead, what about checking for progress instead of checking a 
particular ldisc?

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000fe769905d315a1b7@google.com/
> Fixes: 8a8dabf2dd68 ("tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline")
> Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> index 6ef22f01cc51..9ba7f66fcf05 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> @@ -388,6 +388,12 @@ int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
>   	ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
>   	if (!ld)
>   		return -EIO;	/* ldisc was hung up */
> +
> +	/* tty_ldisc_receive_buf() will not do anything when ldisc is n_null*/
> +	if (ld->ops->num == N_NULL) {
> +		tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
> +		return -EIO;
> +	}
>   	tty_buffer_lock_exclusive(&vc->port);
>   
>   	add_wait_queue(&vc->paste_wait, &wait);
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diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index 6ef22f01cc51..9ba7f66fcf05 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -388,6 +388,12 @@  int paste_selection(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
 	if (!ld)
 		return -EIO;	/* ldisc was hung up */
+
+	/* tty_ldisc_receive_buf() will not do anything when ldisc is n_null*/
+	if (ld->ops->num == N_NULL) {
+		tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
+		return -EIO;
+	}
 	tty_buffer_lock_exclusive(&vc->port);
 
 	add_wait_queue(&vc->paste_wait, &wait);