The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From f0992098cadb4c9c6a00703b66cafe604e178fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:35:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] speakup: Reject setting the speakup line discipline outside of speakup

Speakup exposing a line discipline allows userland to try to use it, while it is deemed to be useless, and thus uselessly exposes potential bugs. One of them is simply that in such a case if the line sends data, spk_ttyio_receive_buf2 is called and crashes since spk_ttyio_synth is NULL.

This change restricts the use of the speakup line discipline to speakup drivers, thus avoiding such kind of issues altogether.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Shisong Qin qinshisong1205@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Tested-by: Shisong Qin qinshisong1205@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201129193523.hm3f6n5xrn6fiyyc@function Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c index 669392f31d4e..6284aff434a1 100644 --- a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c +++ b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c @@ -47,27 +47,20 @@ static int spk_ttyio_ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct spk_ldisc_data *ldisc_data;

+ if (tty != speakup_tty) + /* Somebody tried to use this line discipline outside speakup */ + return -ENODEV; + if (!tty->ops->write) return -EOPNOTSUPP;

- mutex_lock(&speakup_tty_mutex); - if (speakup_tty) { - mutex_unlock(&speakup_tty_mutex); - return -EBUSY; - } - speakup_tty = tty; - ldisc_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*ldisc_data), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ldisc_data) { - speakup_tty = NULL; - mutex_unlock(&speakup_tty_mutex); + if (!ldisc_data) return -ENOMEM; - }

init_completion(&ldisc_data->completion); ldisc_data->buf_free = true; - speakup_tty->disc_data = ldisc_data; - mutex_unlock(&speakup_tty_mutex); + tty->disc_data = ldisc_data;

return 0; } @@ -191,9 +184,25 @@ static int spk_ttyio_initialise_ldisc(struct spk_synth *synth)

tty_unlock(tty);

+ mutex_lock(&speakup_tty_mutex); + speakup_tty = tty; ret = tty_set_ldisc(tty, N_SPEAKUP); if (ret) - pr_err("speakup: Failed to set N_SPEAKUP on tty\n"); + speakup_tty = NULL; + mutex_unlock(&speakup_tty_mutex); + + if (!ret) + /* Success */ + return 0; + + pr_err("speakup: Failed to set N_SPEAKUP on tty\n"); + + tty_lock(tty); + if (tty->ops->close) + tty->ops->close(tty, NULL); + tty_unlock(tty); + + tty_kclose(tty);

return ret; }