tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf
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 be10eb75 ("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> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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