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2015-12-12tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()Peter Hurley1-1/+1
A line discipline which does not define a receive_buf() method can can cause a GPF if data is ever received [1]. Oddly, this was known to the author of n_tracesink in 2011, but never fixed. [1] GPF report BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) PGD 3752d067 PUD 37a7b067 PMD 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 148 Comm: kworker/u10:2 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc2+ #51 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc task: ffff88006da94440 ti: ffff88006db60000 task.ti: ffff88006db60000 RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) RSP: 0018:ffff88006db67b50 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000102 RBX: ffff88003ab32f88 RCX: 0000000000000102 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88003ab330a6 RDI: ffff88003aabd388 RBP: ffff88006db67c48 R08: ffff88003ab32f9c R09: ffff88003ab31fb0 R10: ffff88003ab32fa8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: ffff88006db67c20 R14: ffffffff863df820 R15: ffff88003ab31fb8 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000037938000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffffffff829f46f1 ffff88006da94bf8 ffff88006da94bf8 0000000000000000 ffff88003ab31fb0 ffff88003aabd438 ffff88003ab31ff8 ffff88006430fd90 ffff88003ab32f9c ffffed0007557a87 1ffff1000db6cf78 ffff88003ab32078 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8127cf91>] process_one_work+0x8f1/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2030 [<ffffffff8127df14>] worker_thread+0xd4/0x1180 kernel/workqueue.c:2162 [<ffffffff8128faaf>] kthread+0x1cf/0x270 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1302 [<ffffffff852a7c2f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:468 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [< (null)>] (null) RSP <ffff88006db67b50> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace a587f8947e54d6ea ]--- Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workersPeter Hurley1-1/+1
The commonly accepted wisdom that scheduling work on the same cpu that handled interrupt i/o benefits from cache-locality is only true if the cpu is idle (since bound kworkers are often the highest vruntime and thus the lowest priority). Measurements of scheduling via the unbound queue show lowered worst-case latency responses of up to 5x over bound workqueue, without increase in average latency or throughput. pty i/o test measurements show >3x (!) reduced total running time; tests previously taking ~8s now complete in <2.5s. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17tty: Abstract tty buffer workPeter Hurley1-0/+10
Introduce API functions to restart and cancel tty buffer work, rather than manipulate buffer work directly. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race on tty_buffer.commitDmitry Vyukov1-3/+12
Race on buffer data happens when newly committed data is picked up by an old flush work in the following scenario: __tty_buffer_request_room does a plain write of tail->commit, no barriers were executed before that. At this point flush_to_ldisc reads this new value of commit, and reads buffer data, no barriers in between. The committed buffer data is not necessary visible to flush_to_ldisc. Similar bug happens when tty_schedule_flip commits data. Update commit with smp_store_release and read commit with smp_load_acquire, as it is commit that signals data readiness. This is orthogonal to the existing synchronization on tty_buffer.next, which is required to not dismiss a buffer with unconsumed data. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race in tty_buffer_flushDmitry Vyukov1-1/+4
tty_buffer_flush frees not acquired buffers. As the result, for example, read of b->size in tty_buffer_free can return garbage value which will lead to a huge buffer hanging in the freelist. This is just the benignest manifestation of freeing of a not acquired object. If the object is passed to kfree, heap can be corrupted. Acquire visibility over the buffer before freeing it. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04tty: fix data race in flush_to_ldiscDmitry Vyukov1-1/+1
flush_to_ldisc reads port->itty and checks that it is not NULL, concurrently release_tty sets port->itty to NULL. It is possible that flush_to_ldisc loads port->itty once, ensures that it is not NULL, but then reloads it again and uses. The second load can already return NULL, which will cause a crash. Use READ_ONCE to read port->itty. The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-07-23tty: buffers: Move hidden buffer index advance into outer loopPeter Hurley1-1/+1
The advance of the 'read' buffer index belongs in the outer flip buffer consume loop, with the other buffer index arithmetic. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-07-23tty: Replace smp_rmb/smp_wmb with smp_load_acquire/smp_store_releasePeter Hurley1-6/+4
Clarify flip buffer producer/consumer operation; the use of smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release() more clearly indicates which memory access requires a barrier. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-18Merge 4.1-rc4 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-14/+27
This resolves some tty driver merge issues. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-10pty: Fix input race when closingPeter Hurley1-14/+27
A read() from a pty master may mistakenly indicate EOF (errno == -EIO) after the pty slave has closed, even though input data remains to be read. For example, pty slave | input worker | pty master | | | | n_tty_read() pty_write() | | input avail? no add data | | sleep schedule worker --->| | . |---> flush_to_ldisc() | . pty_close() | fill read buffer | . wait for worker | wakeup reader --->| . | read buffer full? |---> input avail ? yes |<--- yes - exit worker | copy 4096 bytes to user TTY_OTHER_CLOSED <---| |<--- kick worker | | **** New read() before worker starts **** | | n_tty_read() | | input avail? no | | TTY_OTHER_CLOSED? yes | | return -EIO Several conditions are required to trigger this race: 1. the ldisc read buffer must become full so the input worker exits 2. the read() count parameter must be >= 4096 so the ldisc read buffer is empty 3. the subsequent read() occurs before the kicked worker has processed more input However, the underlying cause of the race is that data is pipelined, while tty state is not; ie., data already written by the pty slave end is not yet visible to the pty master end, but state changes by the pty slave end are visible to the pty master end immediately. Pipeline the TTY_OTHER_CLOSED state through input worker to the reader. 1. Introduce TTY_OTHER_DONE which is set by the input worker when TTY_OTHER_CLOSED is set and either the input buffers are flushed or input processing has completed. Readers/polls are woken when TTY_OTHER_DONE is set. 2. Reader/poll checks TTY_OTHER_DONE instead of TTY_OTHER_CLOSED. 3. A new input worker is started from pty_close() after setting TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, which ensures the TTY_OTHER_DONE state will be set if the last input worker is already finished (or just about to exit). Remove tty_flush_to_ldisc(); no in-tree callers. Fixes: 52bce7f8d4fc ("pty, n_tty: Simplify input processing on final close") Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96311 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429756 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.19+ Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-10tty: tty_buffer.c: move assignment out of if () blockGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+2
We should not be doing assignments within an if () block so fix up the code to not do this. change was created using Coccinelle. CC: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-02-02pty: Fix buffer flush deadlockPeter Hurley1-0/+6
The pty driver does not clear its write buffer when commanded. This is to avoid an apparent deadlock between parallel flushes from both pty ends; specifically when handling either BRK or INTR input. However, parallel flushes from this source is not possible since the pty master can never be set to BRKINT or ISIG. Parallel flushes from other sources are possible but these do not threaten deadlocks. Annotate the tty buffer mutex for lockdep to represent the nested tty_buffer locking which occurs when the pty slave is processing input (its buffer mutex held) and receives INTR or BRK and acquires the linked tty buffer mutex via tty_buffer_flush(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-05tty: Flush ldisc buffer atomically with tty flip buffersPeter Hurley1-2/+8
tty_ldisc_flush() first clears the line discipline input buffer, then clears the tty flip buffers. However, this allows for existing data in the tty flip buffers to be added after the ldisc input buffer has been cleared, but before the flip buffers have been cleared. Add an optional ldisc parameter to tty_buffer_flush() to allow tty_ldisc_flush() to pass the ldisc to clear. NB: Initially, the plan was to do this automatically in tty_buffer_flush(). However, an audit of the behavior of existing line disciplines showed that performing a ldisc buffer flush on ioctl(TCFLSH) was not always the outcome. For example, some line disciplines have flush_buffer() methods but not ioctl() methods, so a ->flush_buffer() command would be unexpected. Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-24Staging: speakup: Update __speakup_paste_selection() tty (ab)usage to match vtBen Hutchings1-0/+2
This function is largely a duplicate of paste_selection() in drivers/tty/vt/selection.c, but with its own selection state. The speakup selection mechanism should really be merged with vt. For now, apply the changes from 'TTY: vt, fix paste_selection ldisc handling', 'tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendly', and 'tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()'. References: https://bugs.debian.org/735202 References: https://bugs.debian.org/744015 Reported-by: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8 but needs backporting for < 3.12 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-03tty: Fix lockless tty buffer racePeter Hurley1-3/+14
Commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03, "tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldisc" correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), where the consumer flush_to_ldisc() prematurely advances the head before consuming the last of the data committed. For example: CPU 0 | CPU 1 __tty_buffer_request_room | flush_to_ldisc ... | ... | count = head->commit - head->read n = tty_buffer_alloc() | b->commit = b->used | b->next = n | | if (!count) /* T */ | if (head->next == NULL) /* F */ | buf->head = head->next In this case, buf->head has been advanced but head->commit may have been updated with a new value. Instead of reintroducing an unnecessary lock, fix the race locklessly. Read the commit-next pair in the reverse order of writing, which guarantees the commit value read is the latest value written if the head is advancing. Reported-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x+ Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-03Revert "tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and ↵Peter Hurley1-14/+2
flush_to_ldisc" This reverts commit 6a20dbd6caa2358716136144bf524331d70b1e03. Although the commit correctly identifies an unsafe race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room() and flush_to_ldisc(), the commit fixes the race with an unnecessary spinlock in a lockless algorithm. The follow-on commit, "tty: Fix lockless tty buffer race" fixes the race locklessly. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-24tty: Fix race condition between __tty_buffer_request_room and flush_to_ldiscManfred Schlaegl1-2/+14
The race was introduced while development of linux-3.11 by e8437d7ecbc50198705331449367d401ebb3181f and e9975fdec0138f1b2a85b9624e41660abd9865d4. Originally it was found and reproduced on linux-3.12.15 and linux-3.12.15-rt25, by sending 500 byte blocks with 115kbaud to the target uart in a loop with 100 milliseconds delay. In short: 1. The consumer flush_to_ldisc is on to remove the head tty_buffer. 2. The producer adds a number of bytes, so that a new tty_buffer must be allocated and added by __tty_buffer_request_room. 3. The consumer removes the head tty_buffer element, without handling newly committed data. Detailed example: * Initial buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=240; next=NULL * Consumer: ''flush_to_ldisc'' * consumed 10 Byte * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL {{{ count = head->commit - head->read; // count = 0 if (!count) { // enter // INTERRUPTED BY PRODUCER -> if (head->next == NULL) break; buf->head = head->next; tty_buffer_free(port, head); continue; } }}} * Producer: tty_insert_flip_... 10 bytes + tty_flip_buffer_push * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=250; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL * added 6 bytes: head-element filled to maximum. * buffer: * Head, Tail -> 0: used=256; commit=250; read=250; next=NULL * added 4 bytes: __tty_buffer_request_room is called * buffer: * Head -> 0: used=256; commit=256; read=250; next=1 * Tail -> 1: used=4; commit=0; read=250 next=NULL * push (tty_flip_buffer_push) * buffer: * Head -> 0: used=256; commit=256; read=250; next=1 * Tail -> 1: used=4; commit=4; read=250 next=NULL * Consumer {{{ count = head->commit - head->read; if (!count) { // INTERRUPTED BY PRODUCER <- if (head->next == NULL) // -> no break break; buf->head = head->next; tty_buffer_free(port, head); // ERROR: tty_buffer head freed -> 6 bytes lost continue; } }}} This patch reintroduces a spin_lock to protect this case. Perhaps later a lock-less solution could be found. Signed-off-by: Manfred Schlaegl <manfred.schlaegl@gmx.at> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-28tty: Fix low_latency BUGPeter Hurley1-16/+4
The user-settable knob, low_latency, has been the source of several BUG reports which stem from flush_to_ldisc() running in interrupt context. Since 3.12, which added several sleeping locks (termios_rwsem and buf->lock) to the input processing path, the frequency of these BUG reports has increased. Note that changes in 3.12 did not introduce this regression; sleeping locks were first added to the input processing path with the removal of the BKL from N_TTY in commit a88a69c91256418c5907c2f1f8a0ec0a36f9e6cc, 'n_tty: Fix loss of echoed characters and remove bkl from n_tty' and later in commit 38db89799bdf11625a831c5af33938dcb11908b6, 'tty: throttling race fix'. Since those changes, executing flush_to_ldisc() in interrupt_context (ie, low_latency set), is unsafe. However, since most devices do not validate if the low_latency setting is appropriate for the context (process or interrupt) in which they receive data, some reports are due to misconfiguration. Further, serial dma devices for which dma fails, resort to interrupt receiving as a backup without resetting low_latency. Historically, low_latency was used to force wake-up the reading process rather than wait for the next scheduler tick. The effect was to trim multiple milliseconds of latency from when the process would receive new data. Recent tests [1] have shown that the reading process now receives data with only 10's of microseconds latency without low_latency set. Remove the low_latency rx steering from tty_flip_buffer_push(); however, leave the knob as an optional hint to drivers that can tune their rx fifos and such like. Cleanup stale code comments regarding low_latency. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/434 "Yay.. thats an annoying historical pain in the butt gone." -- Alan Cox Reported-by: Beat Bolli <bbolli@ewanet.ch> Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Hal Murray <murray+fedora@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x+ Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-07tty: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>Paul Gortmaker1-1/+0
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to code getting copied from one driver to the next. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-09tty: Halve flip buffer GFP_ATOMIC memory consumptionPeter Hurley1-10/+35
tty flip buffers use GFP_ATOMIC allocations for received data which is to be processed by the line discipline. For each byte received, an extra byte is used to indicate the error status of that byte. Instead, if the received data is error-free, encode the entire buffer without status bytes. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08tty: Fix stale tty_buffer_flush() commentPeter Hurley1-3/+1
Commit d7a68be4f265be10e24be931c257af30ca55566b, 'tty: Only perform flip buffer flush from tty_buffer_flush()', removed buffer flushing from flush_to_ldisc(). Fix function header comment which describes the former behavior. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08staging/fwserial: Rip out rx bufferingPeter Hurley1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08tty: Remove tty_prepare_flip_string_flags()Peter Hurley1-28/+0
There is no in-tree user of tty_prepare_flip_string_flags(); remove. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08tty: Rename tty buffer memory_used fieldPeter Hurley1-6/+6
Trim up the memory_used field name to mem_used. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08tty: Enable configurable tty flip buffer limitPeter Hurley1-3/+21
Allow driver to configure its maximum flip buffer memory consumption/limit. This is necessary for very-high speed line rates (in excess of 10MB/sec) because the flip buffers can be saturated before the line discipline has a chance to throttle the input. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Remove private constant from global namespacePeter Hurley1-0/+10
TTY_BUFFER_PAGE is only used within drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c; relocate to that file scope. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()Peter Hurley1-13/+48
Convert the tty_buffer_flush() exclusion mechanism to a public interface - tty_buffer_lock/unlock_exclusive() - and use the interface to safely write the paste selection to the line discipline. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Merge __tty_flush_buffer() into lone call sitePeter Hurley1-23/+6
__tty_flush_buffer() is now only called by tty_flush_buffer(); merge functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Use non-atomic state to signal flip buffer flush pendingPeter Hurley1-3/+4
Atomic bit ops are no longer required to indicate a flip buffer flush is pending, as the flush_mutex is sufficient barrier. Remove the unnecessary port .iflags field and localize flip buffer state to struct tty_bufhead. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Only perform flip buffer flush from tty_buffer_flush()Peter Hurley1-42/+21
Now that dropping the buffer lock is not necessary (as result of converting the spin lock to a mutex), the flip buffer flush no longer needs to be handled by the buffer work. Simply signal a flush is required; the buffer work will exit the i/o loop, which allows tty_buffer_flush() to proceed. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Ensure single-threaded flip buffer consumer with mutexPeter Hurley1-21/+19
The buffer work may race with parallel tty_buffer_flush. Use a mutex to guarantee exclusive modify access to the head flip buffer. Remove the unneeded spin lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Make driver-side flip buffers locklessPeter Hurley1-27/+4
Driver-side flip buffer input is already single-threaded; 'publish' the .next link as the last operation on the tail buffer so the 'consumer' sees the already-completed flip buffer. The commit buffer index is already 'published' by driver-side functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Track flip buffer memory limit atomicallyPeter Hurley1-6/+31
Lockless flip buffers require atomically updating the bytes-in-use watermark. The pty driver also peeks at the watermark value to limit memory consumption to a much lower value than the default; query the watermark with new fn, tty_buffer_space_avail(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Simplify flip buffer list with 0-sized sentinelPeter Hurley1-31/+18
Use a 0-sized sentinel to avoid assigning the head ptr from the driver side thread. This also eliminates testing head/tail for NULL. When the sentinel is first 'consumed' by the buffer work (or by tty_buffer_flush()), it is detached from the list but not freed nor added to the free list. Both buffer work and tty_buffer_flush() continue to preserve at least 1 flip buffer to which head & tail is pointed. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Use lockless flip buffer free listPeter Hurley1-17/+12
In preparation for lockless flip buffers, make the flip buffer free list lockless. NB: using llist is not the optimal solution, as the driver and buffer work may contend over the llist head unnecessarily. However, test measurements indicate this contention is low. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Use generic names for flip buffer list cursorsPeter Hurley1-10/+10
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Merge tty_buffer_find() into tty_buffer_alloc()Peter Hurley1-32/+18
tty_buffer_find() implements a simple free list lookaside cache. Merge this functionality into tty_buffer_alloc() to reflect the more traditional alloc/free symmetry. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Factor flip buffer initialization into helper functionPeter Hurley1-9/+12
Factor shared code; prepare for adding 0-sized sentinel flip buffer. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Fix flip buffer free listPeter Hurley1-6/+10
Since flip buffers are size-aligned to 256 bytes and all flip buffers 512-bytes or larger are not added to the free list, the free list only contains 256-byte flip buffers. Remove the list search when allocating a new flip buffer. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Compute flip buffer ptrsPeter Hurley1-12/+10
The char_buf_ptr and flag_buf_ptr values are trivially derived from the .data field offset; compute values as needed. Fixes a long-standing type-mismatch with the char and flag ptrs. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendlyPeter Hurley1-4/+9
Although line discipline receiving is single-producer/single-consumer, using tty->receive_room to manage flow control creates unnecessary critical regions requiring additional lock use. Instead, introduce the optional .receive_buf2() ldisc method which returns the # of bytes actually received. Serialization is guaranteed by the caller. In turn, the line discipline should schedule the buffer work item whenever space becomes available; ie., when there is room to receive data and receive_room() previously returned 0 (the buffer work item stops processing if receive_buf2() returns 0). Note the 'no room' state need not be atomic despite concurrent use by two threads because only the buffer work thread can set the state and only the read() thread can clear the state. Add n_tty_receive_buf2() as the receive_buf2() method for N_TTY. Provide a public helper function, tty_ldisc_receive_buf(), to use when directly accessing the receive_buf() methods. Line disciplines not using input flow control can continue to set tty->receive_room to a fixed value and only provide the receive_buf() method. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Simplify tty buffer/ldisc interface with helper functionPeter Hurley1-12/+17
Ldisc interface functions must be called with interrupts enabled. Separating the ldisc calls into a helper function simplies the eventual removal of the spinlock. Note that access to the buf->head ptr outside the spinlock is safe here because; * __tty_buffer_flush() is prevented from running while buffer work performs i/o, * tty_buffer_find() only assigns buf->head if the flip buffer list is empty (which is never the case in flush_to_ldisc() since at least one buffer is always left in the list after use) Access to the read index outside the spinlock is safe here for the same reasons. Update the buffer's read index _after_ the data has been received by the ldisc. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23tty: Replace ldisc locking with ldisc_semPeter Hurley1-1/+1
Line discipline locking was performed with a combination of a mutex, a status bit, a count, and a waitqueue -- basically, a rw semaphore. Replace the existing combination with an ld_semaphore. Fixes: 1) the 'reference acquire after ldisc locked' bug 2) the over-complicated halt mechanism 3) lock order wrt. tty_lock() 4) dropping locks while changing ldisc 5) previously unidentified deadlock while locking ldisc from both linked ttys concurrently 6) previously unidentified recursive deadlocks Adds much-needed lockdep diagnostics. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-09tty: Fix race condition if flushing tty flip buffersPeter Hurley1-12/+10
As Ilya Zykov identified in his patch 'PROBLEM: Race condition in tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc()', a race condition exists which allows a parallel flush_to_ldisc() to flush and free the tty flip buffers while those buffers are in-use. For example, CPU 0 | CPU 1 | CPU 2 | flush_to_ldisc() | | grab spin lock | tty_buffer_flush() | | flush_to_ldisc() wait for spin lock | | wait for spin lock | if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | while (next flip buffer) | | ... | | drop spin lock | grab spin lock | | if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING) | receive_buf() | drop spin lock | | | | grab spin lock | | if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) | | if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING)) | | __tty_buffer_flush() CPU 2 has just flushed and freed all tty flip buffers while CPU 1 is transferring data from the head flip buffer. The original patch was rejected under the assumption that parallel flush_to_ldisc() was not possible. Because of necessary changes to the workqueue api, work items can execute in parallel on SMP. This patch differs slightly from the original patch by testing for a pending flush _after_ each receive_buf(), since TTYP_FLUSHPENDING can only be set while the lock is dropped around receive_buf(). Reported-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-04TTY: disable debugging warningJiri Slaby1-1/+1
We added a warning to flush_to_ldisc to report cases when it is called with a NULL tty. It was for debugging purposes and it lead to a patchset from Peter Hurley. The patchset however did not make it to 3.9, so disable the warning now to not disturb people. We can re-add it when the series is in and we are hunting for another bugs. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.8 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-13pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code properGeorge Spelvin1-0/+1
The PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) line discipline has developed a number of unhealthy attachments to core tty data and functions, ultimately leading to its breakage. The previous patches fixed the crashing. This one reduces coupling further by eliminating the timestamp parameter from the dcd_change ldisc method. This reduces header file linkage and makes the extension more generic, and the timestamp read is delayed only slightly, from just before the ldisc->ops->dcd_change method call to just after. Fix attendant build breakage in drivers/tty/n_tty.c drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c drivers/staging/dgrp/dgrp_*.c Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com> Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-20tty: Correct tty buffer flush.Ilya Zykov1-70/+22
The root of problem is carelessly zeroing pointer(in function __tty_buffer_flush()), when another thread can use it. It can be cause of "NULL pointer dereference". Main idea of the patch, this is never free last (struct tty_buffer) in the active buffer. Only flush the data for ldisc(buf->head->read = buf->head->commit). At that moment driver can collect(write) data in buffer without conflict. It is repeat behavior of flush_to_ldisc(), only without feeding data to ldisc. Also revert: commit c56a00a165712fd73081f40044b1e64407bb1875 tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling In order to delete the unneeded locks any more. Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru> CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15TTY: switch tty_schedule_flipJiri Slaby1-4/+4
Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more tty_port_tty_get in those paths. This is the last one: tty_schedule_flip Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15TTY: switch tty_flip_buffer_pushJiri Slaby1-4/+4
Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more tty_port_tty_get in those paths. Now, the one where most of tty_port_tty_get gets removed: tty_flip_buffer_push. IOW we also closed all the races in drivers not using tty_port_tty_get at all yet. Also we move tty_flip_buffer_push declaration from include/linux/tty.h to include/linux/tty_flip.h to all others while we are changing it anyway. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15TTY: move low_latency to tty_portJiri Slaby1-4/+5
One point is to have less places where we actually need tty pointer. The other is that low_latency is bound to buffer processing and buffers are now in tty_port. So it makes sense to move low_latency to tty_port too. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>