tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf
authorAlexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:54:40 +0000 (19:54 +0300)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:18:59 +0000 (02:18 +0000)
commitd7ac6cf6751a0ffa00f9e46022024f79b0daa771
treec384211c367305c94b353cd963bb1f2aecd054c6
parent4157e287632c9f88ea9bee74d7296a20aa1654cc
tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf

commit 82f2341c94d270421f383641b7cd670e474db56b upstream.

Currently N_HDLC line discipline uses a self-made singly linked list for
data buffers and has n_hdlc.tbuf pointer for buffer retransmitting after
an error.

The commit be10eb7589337e5defbe214dae038a53dd21add8
("tty: n_hdlc add buffer flushing") introduced racy access to n_hdlc.tbuf.
After tx error concurrent flush_tx_queue() and n_hdlc_send_frames() can put
one data buffer to tx_free_buf_list twice. That causes double free in
n_hdlc_release().

Let's use standard kernel linked list and get rid of n_hdlc.tbuf:
in case of tx error put current data buffer after the head of tx_buf_list.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c