linux-toradex.git/drivers/tty, branch v3.10.45

8250_core: Fix unwanted TX chars write

2014-06-07T20:25:30+00:00

commit b08c9c317e3f7764a91d522cd031639ba42b98cc upstream.

On transmit-hold-register empty, serial8250_tx_chars
should be called only if we don't use DMA.
DMA has its own tx cycle.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain 
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: Fix thread unsafe __dma_tx_complete function

2014-06-07T20:25:30+00:00

commit f8fd1b0350d3a4581125f5eda6528f5a2c5f9183 upstream.

__dma_tx_complete is not protected against concurrent
call of serial8250_tx_dma. it can lead to circular tail
index corruption or parallel call of serial_tx_dma on the
same data portion.

This patch fixes this issue by holding the port lock.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain 
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode

2014-05-13T11:59:40+00:00

commit 4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00 upstream.

The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for
the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO & !OPOST.  And since
it is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like
tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when
concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two
writers:
* the ECHOing from a workqueue and
* pty_write from the process
race and can overflow the corresponding TTY buffer like follows.

If we look into tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag, there is:
  int space = __tty_buffer_request_room(port, goal, flags);
  struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;
  ...
  memcpy(char_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used), chars, space);
  ...
  tb->used += space;

so the race of the two can result in something like this:
              A                                B
__tty_buffer_request_room
                                  __tty_buffer_request_room
memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...)
tb->used += space;
                                  memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...) ->BOOM

B's memcpy is past the tty_buffer due to the previous A's tb->used
increment.

Since the N_TTY line discipline input processing can output
concurrently with a tty write, obtain the N_TTY ldisc output_lock to
serialize echo output with normal tty writes.  This ensures the tty
buffer helper tty_insert_flip_string is not called concurrently and
everything is fine.

Note that this is nicely reproducible by an ordinary user using
forkpty and some setup around that (raw termios + ECHO). And it is
present in kernels at least after commit
d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc (pty: Rework the pty layer to
use the normal buffering logic) in 2.6.31-rc3.

js: add more info to the commit log
js: switch to bool
js: lock unconditionally
js: lock only the tty->ops->write call

References: CVE-2014-0196
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: serial: 8250_core.c Bug fix for Exar chips.

2014-05-13T11:59:40+00:00

commit b790f210fe8423eff881b2a8a93ba5dbc45534d0 upstream.

The sleep function was updated to put the serial port to sleep only when necessary.
This appears to resolve the errant behavior of the driver as described in
Kernel Bug 61961 – "My Exar Corp. XR17C/D152 Dual PCI UART modem does not
work with 3.8.0".

Signed-off-by: Michael Welling 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/tty/hvc: don't free hvc_console_setup after init

2014-05-13T11:59:40+00:00

commit 501fed45b7e8836ee9373f4d31e2d85e3db6103a upstream.

When 'console=hvc0' is specified to the kernel parameter in x86 KVM guest,
hvc console is setup within a kthread. However, that will cause SEGV
and the boot will fail when the driver is builtin to the kernel,
because currently hvc_console_setup() is annotated with '__init'. This
patch removes '__init' to boot the guest successfully with 'console=hvc0'.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c

2014-05-06T14:55:32+00:00

commit f76a1cbed18c86e2d192455f0daebb48458965f3 upstream.

Commit 3e6c6f630a5282df8f3393a59f10eb9c56536d23 ("Delay creation of
khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
hvc_init had already been called.

The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.

This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:

    Couldn't register hvc console driver
    virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port

Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.

Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Fixes: 3e6c6f630a52 ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
Reported-by: Jim Somerville 
Tested-by: Jim Somerville 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
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

vt: Fix secure clear screen

2014-02-22T20:41:27+00:00

commit 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 upstream.

\E[3J console code (secure clear screen) needs to update_screen(vc)
in order to write-through blanks into off-screen video memory.

This has been removed accidentally in 3.6 by:

commit 81732c3b2fede049a692e58a7ceabb6d18ffb18c
Author: Jean-François Moine 
Date:   Thu Sep 6 19:24:13 2012 +0200

    tty vt: Fix line garbage in virtual console on command line edition

Signed-off-by: Petr Písař 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: n_gsm: Fix for modems with brk in modem status control

2014-02-22T20:41:27+00:00

commit 3ac06b905655b3ef2fd2196bab36e4587e1e4e4f upstream.

3GPP TS 07.10 states in section 5.4.6.3.7:
"The length byte contains the value 2 or 3 ... depending on the break
signal." The break byte is optional and if it is sent, the length is
3. In fact the driver was not able to work with modems that send this
break byte in their modem status control message. If the modem just
sends the break byte if it is really set, then weird things might
happen.
The code for deconding the modem status to the internal linux
presentation in gsm_process_modem has already a big comment about
this 2 or 3 byte length thing and it is already able to decode the
brk, but the code calling the gsm_process_modem function in
gsm_control_modem does not encode it and hand it over the right way.
This patch fixes this.
Without this fix if the modem sends the brk byte in it's modem status
control message the driver will hang when opening a muxed channel.

Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: enable UART_BUG_NOMSR for Tegra

2014-02-06T19:08:14+00:00

commit 3685f19e07802ec4207b52465c408f185b66490e upstream.

Tegra chips have 4 or 5 identical UART modules embedded. UARTs C..E have
their MODEM-control signals tied off to a static state. However UARTs A
and B can optionally route those signals to/from package pins, depending
on the exact pinmux configuration.

When these signals are not routed to package pins, false interrupts may
trigger either temporarily, or permanently, all while not showing up in
the IIR; it will read as NO_INT. This will eventually lead to the UART
IRQ being disabled due to unhandled interrupts. When this happens, the
kernel may print e.g.:

    irq 68: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

In order to prevent this, enable UART_BUG_NOMSR. This prevents
UART_IER_MSI from being enabled, which prevents the false interrupts
from triggering.

In practice, this is not needed under any of the following conditions:

* On Tegra chips after Tegra30, since the HW bug has apparently been
  fixed.

* On UARTs C..E since their MODEM control signals are tied to the correct
  static state which doesn't trigger the issue.

* On UARTs A..B if the MODEM control signals are routed out to package
  pins, since they will then carry valid signals.

However, we ignore these exceptions for now, since they are only relevant
if a board actually hooks up more than a 4-wire UART, and no currently
supported board does this. If we ever support a board that does, we can
refine the algorithm that enables UART_BUG_NOMSR to take those exceptions
into account, and/or read a flag from DT/... that indicates that the
board has hooked up and pinmux'd more than a 4-wire UART.

Reported-by: Olof Johansson  # autotester
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman