linux-toradex.git/drivers/tty/tty_io.c, branch v3.2.47

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-13T14:02:32+00:00

commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde upstream.

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 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

TTY: fix atime/mtime regression

2013-05-13T14:02:31+00:00

commit 37b7f3c76595e23257f61bd80b223de8658617ee upstream.

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 
[bwh: For 3.2, use Greg's backported version]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write

2013-05-13T14:02:31+00:00

commit b0de59b5733d18b0d1974a060860a8b5c1b36a2e upstream.

On http://vladz.devzero.fr/013_ptmx-timing.php, we can see how to find
out length of a password using timestamps of /dev/ptmx. It is
documented in "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on
SSH". To avoid that problem, do not update time when reading
from/writing to a TTY.

I am afraid of regressions as this is a behavior we have since 0.97
and apps may expect the time to be current, e.g. for monitoring
whether there was a change on the TTY. Now, there is no change. So
this would better have a lot of testing before it goes upstream.

References: CVE-2013-0160

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2011-10-26T13:11:09+00:00

* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (79 commits)
  TTY: serial_core: Fix crash if DCD drop during suspend
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: bootconsole removed from auto-enumerates
  Revert "TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally"
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: add device tree support
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: auto-enumerate ports
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: whitespace and braces modifications
  tty/serial: atmel_serial: change platform_data variable name
  tty/serial: RS485 bindings for device tree
  TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally
  TTY: pty, release tty in all ptmx_open fail paths
  TTY: make tty_add_file non-failing
  TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path
  8250_pci: Fix kernel panic when pch_uart is disabled
  h8300: drivers/serial/Kconfig was moved
  parport_pc: release IO region properly if unsupported ITE887x card is found
  tty: Support compat_ioctl get/set termios_locked
  hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
  TTY: snyclinkmp: forever loop in tx_load_dma_buffer()
  tty/n_gsm: avoid fifo overflow in gsm_dlci_data_output
  tty/n_gsm: fix a bug in gsm_dlci_data_output (adaption = 2 case)
  ...

Fix up Conflicts in:
 - drivers/tty/serial/8250_pci.c
	Trivial conflict with removed duplicate device ID
 - drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
	Annoying silly conflict between "specify the port num via
	platform_data" and other changes to atmel_console_init

Revert "TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally"

2011-10-19T15:33:21+00:00

This reverts commit 631180aca723cb92e128fdac5fd144e913ca84e5.

It caused problems when /dev/tty is a pty:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/12/401

Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: call tty_driver_lookup_tty unconditionally

2011-10-18T23:39:44+00:00

Commit 4a2b5fddd5 (Move tty lookup/reopen to caller) made the call to
tty_driver_lookup_tty conditional in tty_open. It doesn't look like it
was an intention. Or if it was, it was not documented in the changelog
and the code now looks weird. For example there would be no need to
remember the tty driver and tty index. Further the condition depends
on a tty which we drop a reference of already.

If I'm looking correctly, this should not matter thanks to the locking
currently done there. Thus, tty_driver->ttys[idx] cannot change under
our hands. But anyway, it makes sense to change that to the old
behaviour.

Introduced-in: v2.6.28-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: make tty_add_file non-failing

2011-10-18T21:22:37+00:00

If tty_add_file fails at the point it is now, we have to revert all
the changes we did to the tty. It means either decrease all refcounts
if this was a tty reopen or delete the tty if it was newly allocated.

There was a try to fix this in v3.0-rc2 using tty_release in 0259894c7
(TTY: fix fail path in tty_open). But instead it introduced a NULL
dereference. It's because tty_release dereferences
filp->private_data, but that one is set even in our tty_add_file. And
when tty_add_file fails, it's still NULL/garbage. Hence tty_release
cannot be called there.

To circumvent the original leak (and the current NULL deref) we split
tty_add_file into two functions, making the latter non-failing. In
that case we may do the former early in open, where handling failures
is easy. The latter stays as it is now. So there is no change in
functionality.

The original bug (leak) was introduced by f573bd176 (tty: Remove
__GFP_NOFAIL from tty_add_file()). Thanks Dan for reporting this.

Later, we may split tty_release into more functions and call only some
of them in this fail path instead. (If at all possible.)

Introduced-in: v2.6.37-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path

2011-10-18T21:22:36+00:00

When tty_driver_lookup_tty fails in tty_open, we forget to drop a
reference to the tty driver. This was added by commit 4a2b5fddd5 (Move
tty lookup/reopen to caller).

Fix that by adding tty_driver_kref_put to the fail path.

I will refactor the code later. This is for the ease of backporting to
stable.

Introduced-in: v2.6.28-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Support compat_ioctl get/set termios_locked

2011-10-18T21:17:11+00:00

When running a Fedora 15 (x86) on an x86_64 kernel, in the boot process
plymouthd complains about those two missing ioctls:
[    2.581783] ioctl32(plymouthd:186): Unknown cmd fd(10) cmd(00005457){t:'T';sz:0} arg(ffb6a5d0) on /dev/tty1
[    2.581803] ioctl32(plymouthd:186): Unknown cmd fd(10) cmd(00005456){t:'T';sz:0} arg(ffb6a680) on /dev/tty1

both ioctl functions work on the 'struct termios' resp. 'struct termios2',
which has the same size (36 bytes resp. 44 bytes) on x86 and x86_64,
so it's just a matter of converting the pointer from userland.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: pty, fix pty counting

2011-08-23T17:10:38+00:00

tty_operations->remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
 ->tty_shutdown
   ->tty_driver_remove_tty
     ->tty_operations->remove

However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations->shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as ->shutdown.

So tty_operations->remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.

I see this was already reported at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.

This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in ->install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty->link). So ->install is
called once, but ->remove twice, for both tty and tty->link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty->link and divide the count by 2 for
user.

And to have ->remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations->shutdown).

While at it, let's document that when ->shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman