This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vt: selection, push console lock down

to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:54:05 +0100 Subject: vt: selection, push console lock down

We need to nest the console lock in sel_lock, so we have to push it down a bit. Fortunately, the callers of set_selection_* just lock the console lock around the function call. So moving it down is easy.

In the next patch, we switch the order.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Fixes: 07e6124a1a46 ("vt: selection, close sel_buffer race") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228115406.5735-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c | 2 -- drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 13 ++++++++++++- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c index a8b4d0c5ab7e..032f3264fba1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c @@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ static void __speakup_set_selection(struct work_struct *work) goto unref; }

- console_lock(); set_selection_kernel(&sel, tty); - console_unlock();

unref: tty_kref_put(tty); diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c index 0c50d7410b31..9126a01290ea 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int set_selection_user(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, return set_selection_kernel(&v, tty); }

-int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) +static int __set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) { struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d; int new_sel_start, new_sel_end, spc; @@ -343,6 +343,17 @@ int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) mutex_unlock(&sel_lock); return ret; } + +int set_selection_kernel(struct tiocl_selection *v, struct tty_struct *tty) +{ + int ret; + + console_lock(); + ret = __set_selection_kernel(v, tty); + console_unlock(); + + return ret; +} EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_selection_kernel);

/* Insert the contents of the selection buffer into the diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 0cfbb7182b5a..15d27698054a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3046,10 +3046,8 @@ int tioclinux(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg) switch (type) { case TIOCL_SETSEL: - console_lock(); ret = set_selection_user((struct tiocl_selection __user *)(p+1), tty); - console_unlock(); break; case TIOCL_PASTESEL: ret = paste_selection(tty);