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Commit e74d9663 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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serial: core: fix transmit-buffer reset and memleak

commit 00de977f upstream.

Commit 761ed4a9 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use
tty_port_close") converted serial core to use tty_port_close() but
failed to notice that the transmit buffer still needs to be freed on
final close.

Not freeing the transmit buffer means that the buffer is no longer
cleared on next open so that any ioctl() waiting for the buffer to drain
might wait indefinitely (e.g. on termios changes) or that stale data can
end up being transmitted in case tx is restarted.

Furthermore, the buffer of any port that has been opened would leak on
driver unbind.

Note that the port lock is held when clearing the buffer pointer due to
the ldisc race worked around by commit a5ba1d95 ("uart: fix race
between uart_put_char() and uart_shutdown()").

Also note that the tty-port shutdown() callback is not called for
console ports so it is not strictly necessary to free the buffer page
after releasing the lock (cf. d7240214 ("tty/serial: do not free
trasnmit buffer page under port lock")).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/319321886d97c456203d5c6a576a5480d07c3478.1635781688.git.baruch@tkos.co.il
Fixes: 761ed4a9

 ("tty: serial_core: convert uart_close to use tty_port_close")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 4.9
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarBaruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Tested-by: default avatarBaruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211108085431.12637-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 983c32a9
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