linux-toradex.git/drivers/tty/tty_io.c, branch v3.10.78

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take four

2015-03-18T12:22:33+00:00

commit f0bf0bd07943bfde8f5ac39a32664810a379c7d3 upstream.

This problem was taken care of three times already in
* b0de59b5733d18b0d1974a060860a8b5c1b36a2e (TTY: do not update
  atime/mtime on read/write),
* 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee (TTY: fix atime/mtime
  regression), and
* b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde (tty: fix up atime/mtime
  mess, take three)

But it still misses one point. As John Paul correctly points out, we
do not care about setting date. If somebody ever changes wall
time backwards (by mistake for example), tty timestamps are never
updated until the original wall time passes.

So check the absolute difference of times and if it large than "8
seconds or so", always update the time. That means we will update
immediatelly when changing time. Ergo, CAP_SYS_TIME can foul the
check, but it was always that way.

Thanks John for serving me this so nicely debugged.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Reported-by: John Paul Perry 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

2014-11-14T16:48:00+00:00

commit 37b164578826406a173ca7c20d9ba7430134d23e upstream.

Kernel oops can cause the tty to be unreleaseable (for example, if
n_tty_read() crashes while on the read_wait queue). This will cause
tty_release() to endlessly loop without sleeping.

Use a killable sleep timeout which grows by 2n+1 jiffies over the interval
[0, 120 secs.) and then jumps to forever (but still killable).

NB: killable just allows for the task to be rewoken manually, not
to be terminated.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute

2014-04-27T00:15:34+00:00

commit 723abd87f6e536f1353c8f64f621520bc29523a3 upstream.

The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently active tty
devices the console is running on, not the currently active console. The
console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs, only the tty the
console is running on has. So we need to print out the tty names in
'active', not the console names.

There is one special-case, which is tty0. If the console is directed to
it, we want 'tty0' to show up in the file, so user-space knows that the
messages get forwarded to the active VT. The ->device() callback would
resolve tty0, though. Hence, treat it special and don't call into the VT
layer to resolve it (plymouth is known to depend on it).

Cc: Lennart Poettering 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: disassociate_ctty() sends the extra SIGCONT

2013-09-27T00:18:04+00:00

commit 03e1261778cca782d41a3d8e3945ca88cf93e01e upstream.

Starting from v3.10 (probably commit f91e2590410b: "tty: Signal
foreground group processes in hangup") disassociate_ctty() sends SIGCONT
if tty && on_exit.  This breaks LSB test-suite, in particular test8 in
_exit.c and test40 in sigcon5.c.

Put the "!on_exit" check back to restore the old behaviour.

Review by Peter Hurley:
 "Yes, this regression was introduced by me in that commit.  The effect
  of the regression is that ptys will receive a SIGCONT when, in similar
  circumstances, ttys would not.

  The fact that two test vectors accidentally tripped over this
  regression suggests that some other apps may as well.

  Thanks for catching this"

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Karel Srot 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Reset itty for other pty

2013-07-13T18:42:26+00:00

commit 64e377dcd7d75c241d614458e9619d3445de44ef upstream.

Commit 19ffd68f816878aed456d5e87697f43bd9e3bd2b
('pty: Remove redundant itty reset') introduced a regression
whereby the other pty's linkage is not cleared on teardown.
This triggers a false positive diagnostic in testing.

Properly reset the itty linkage.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-01T14:32:21+00:00

We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit
b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then
limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY:
fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both
insufficient and overkill.

It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node
to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill
because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an
idle person from an active one with 'w'.

So this tries to fix the problem properly.  It marks the shared ptmx
node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few
seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual
keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is
active or not.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'tty-3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2013-04-29T19:16:17+00:00

Pull tty/serial driver update from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big tty/serial driver merge request for 3.10-rc1

  Once again, Jiri has a number of TTY driver fixes and cleanups, and
  Peter Hurley came through with a bunch of ldisc fixes that resolve a
  number of reported issues.  There are some other serial driver
  cleanups as well.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while"

* tag 'tty-3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (117 commits)
  tty/serial/sirf: fix MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
  serial: mxs: drop superfluous {get|put}_device
  serial: mxs: fix buffer overflow
  ARM: PL011: add support for extended FIFO-size of PL011-r1p5
  serial_core.c: add put_device() after device_find_child()
  tty: Fix unsafe bit ops in tty_throttle_safe/unthrottle_safe
  serial: sccnxp: Replace pdata.init/exit with regulator API
  serial: sccnxp: Do not override device name
  TTY: pty, fix compilation warning
  TTY: rocket, fix compilation warning
  TTY: ircomm: fix DTR being raised on hang up
  TTY: synclinkmp: fix DTR being raised on hang up
  TTY: synclink_gt: fix DTR being raised on hang up
  TTY: synclink: fix DTR being raised on hang up
  serial: 8250_dw: Fix the stub for dw8250_probe_acpi()
  serial: 8250_dw: Convert to devm_ioremap()
  serial: 8250_dw: Set port capabilities based on CPR register
  serial: 8250_dw: Let ACPI code extract the DMA client info
  serial: 8250_dw: Support clk framework also with ACPI
  serial: 8250_dw: Enable runtime PM
  ...

TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-04-26T14:59:23+00:00

In commit b0de59b5733d ("TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write")
we removed timestamps from tty inodes to fix a security issue and waited
if something breaks.  Well, 'w', the utility to find out logged users
and their inactivity time broke.  It shows that users are inactive since
the time they logged in.

To revert to the old behaviour while still preventing attackers to
guess the password length, we update the timestamps in one-minute
intervals by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tty: tty_vhangup_session can be static

2013-03-25T21:07:34+00:00

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Acked-by: Peter Hurley 

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Don't protect atomic operation with mutex

2013-03-18T23:46:31+00:00

test_bit() is already atomic; drop mutex lock/unlock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman