The commit 12e84c71b7d4ee (tty: export tty_open_by_driver) exports
tty_open_by_device to allow tty to be opened from inside kernel which
works fine except that it doesn't handle contention with user space or
another kernel-space open of the same tty. For example, opening a tty
from user space while it is kernel opened results in failure and a
kernel log message about mismatch between tty->count and tty's file
open count.
This patch makes kernel access to tty exclusive, so that if a user
process or kernel opens a kernel opened tty, it gets -EBUSY. It does
this by adding TTY_KOPENED flag to tty->flags. When this flag is set,
tty_open_by_driver returns -EBUSY. Instead of overlaoding
tty_open_by_driver for both kernel and user space, this
patch creates a separate function tty_kopen which closely follows
tty_open_by_driver.
Returning -EBUSY on tty open is a change in the interface. I have
tested this with minicom, picocom and commands like "echo foo >
/dev/ttyS0". They all correctly report "Device or resource busy" when
the tty is already kernel opened.
Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khaw...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/tty.h | 4 +++
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1786,6 +1786,54 @@ static struct tty_driver *tty_lookup_dri
}
/**
+ * tty_kopen - open a tty device for kernel
+ * @device: dev_t of device to open
+ *
+ * Opens tty exclusively for kernel. Performs the driver lookup,
+ * makes sure it's not already opened and performs the first-time
+ * tty initialization.
+ *
+ * Returns the locked initialized &tty_struct
+ *
+ * Claims the global tty_mutex to serialize:
+ * - concurrent first-time tty initialization
+ * - concurrent tty driver removal w/ lookup
+ * - concurrent tty removal from driver table
+ */
+struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device)
+{
+ struct tty_struct *tty;
+ struct tty_driver *driver = NULL;
+ int index = -1;
+
+ mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
+ driver = tty_lookup_driver(device, NULL, &index);
+ if (IS_ERR(driver)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+ return ERR_CAST(driver);
+ }
+
+ /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
+ tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, NULL, index);
+ if (IS_ERR(tty))
+ goto out;
+
+ if (tty) {
+ /* drop kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */
+ tty_kref_put(tty);
+ tty = ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+ } else { /* tty_init_dev returns tty with the tty_lock held */
+ tty = tty_init_dev(driver, index);
+ set_bit(TTY_KOPENED, &tty->flags);
+ }
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+ tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
+ return tty;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_kopen);
+
+/**
* tty_open_by_driver - open a tty device
* @device: dev_t of device to open
* @inode: inode of device file
@@ -1824,6 +1872,12 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(de
}
if (tty) {
+ if (test_bit(TTY_KOPENED, &tty->flags)) {
+ tty_kref_put(tty);
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+ tty = ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+ goto out;
+ }
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
retval = tty_lock_interruptible(tty);
tty_kref_put(tty); /* drop kref from tty_driver_lookup_tty() */
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ struct tty_file_private {
#define TTY_NO_WRITE_SPLIT 17 /* Preserve write boundaries to driver
*/
#define TTY_HUPPED 18 /* Post driver->hangup() */
#define TTY_LDISC_HALTED 22 /* Line discipline is halted */
+#define TTY_KOPENED 23 /* TTY exclusively opened by kernel */
/* Values for tty->flow_change */
#define TTY_THROTTLE_SAFE 1
@@ -401,6 +402,7 @@ extern int __init tty_init(void);
extern const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty);
extern struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device, struct inode *inode,
struct file *filp);
+extern struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device);
extern int tty_dev_name_to_number(const char *name, dev_t *number);
#else
static inline void tty_kref_put(struct tty_struct *tty)
@@ -425,6 +427,8 @@ static inline const char *tty_name(const
static inline struct tty_struct *tty_open_by_driver(dev_t device,
struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{ return NULL; }
+static inline struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device)
+{ return NULL; }
static inline int tty_dev_name_to_number(const char *name, dev_t *number)
{ return -ENOTSUPP; }
#endif
