tty: Correct tty buffer flush.
authorIlya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>
Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:19:41 +0000 (23:19 +0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:03:27 +0000 (15:03 +0000)
commit689901ce9cedd2d34a5404dda146d0604cbc2a5e
treee8566d50b4c5aefd6193c4b50fa2e65fa3bc8168
parent8c92cb1f49bd56a28c38315103dea7b0dd792027
tty: Correct tty buffer flush.

commit 64325a3be08d364a62ee8f84b2cf86934bc2544a upstream.

  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.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c