On 1/18/2019 2:57 PM, Li RongQing wrote:
There still is a race window after the commit b027e2298bd588
("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf"),
and we encountered this crash issue if receive_buf call comes
before tty initialization completes in n_tty_open and
tty->driver_data may be NULL.

CPU0                                    CPU1
----                                    ----
                                  n_tty_open
                                    tty_init_dev
                                      tty_ldisc_unlock
                                        schedule
flush_to_ldisc
  receive_buf
   tty_port_default_receive_buf
    tty_ldisc_receive_buf
     n_tty_receive_buf_common
       __receive_buf
        uart_flush_chars
         uart_start
         /*tty->driver_data is NULL*/
                                    tty->ops->open
                                    /*init tty->driver_data*/

it can be fixed by extending ldisc semaphore lock in tty_init_dev
to driver_data initialized completely after tty->ops->open(), but
this will lead to put lock on one function and unlock in some other
function, and hard to maintain, so fix this race only by checking
tty->driver_data when receiving, and return if tty->driver_data
is NULL

Signed-off-by: Wang Li <wangl...@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangy...@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com>
---
V4: add version information
V3: not used ldisc semaphore lock, only checking tty->driver_data with NULL
V2: fix building error by EXPORT_SYMBOL tty_ldisc_unlock
V1: extend ldisc lock to protect that tty->driver_data is inited

drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
index 044c3cbdcfa4..86d0bec38322 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ static int tty_port_default_receive_buf(struct tty_port *port,
        if (!tty)
                return 0;
+ if (!tty->driver_data)
+               return 0;
+
        disc = tty_ldisc_ref(tty);
        if (!disc)
                return 0;

Acked-by: Gaurav Kohli <gko...@codeaurora.org>

It looks good to me w.r.t previous approach, but Let's Maintainer decide once.

Regards
Gaurav
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