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Commit 3c6332f3 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc



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... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just N_TTY.  They are
kind of special, and in particular, the "con_write()" routine violates
the "writes cannot sleep" rule that some ldiscs rely on.

This avoids the

   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:2659

when N_GSM has been attached to a virtual console, and gsmld_write()
calls con_write() while holding a spinlock, and con_write() then tries
to get the console lock.

Tested-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Starke <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzbot+dbac96d8e73b61aa559c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dbac96d8e73b61aa559c


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423163339.59780-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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