--- /dev/null
+From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>\r
+\r
+commit 4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00 upstream.\r
+\r
+The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for\r
+the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO & !OPOST. And since\r
+it is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like\r
+tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when\r
+concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two\r
+writers:\r
+* the ECHOing from a workqueue and\r
+* pty_write from the process\r
+race and can overflow the corresponding TTY buffer like follows.\r
+\r
+If we look into tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag, there is:\r
+ int space = __tty_buffer_request_room(port, goal, flags);\r
+ struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;\r
+ ...\r
+ memcpy(char_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used), chars, space);\r
+ ...\r
+ tb->used += space;\r
+\r
+so the race of the two can result in something like this:\r
+ A B\r
+__tty_buffer_request_room\r
+ __tty_buffer_request_room\r
+memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...)\r
+tb->used += space;\r
+ memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...) ->BOOM\r
+\r
+B's memcpy is past the tty_buffer due to the previous A's tb->used\r
+increment.\r
+\r
+Since the N_TTY line discipline input processing can output\r
+concurrently with a tty write, obtain the N_TTY ldisc output_lock to\r
+serialize echo output with normal tty writes. This ensures the tty\r
+buffer helper tty_insert_flip_string is not called concurrently and\r
+everything is fine.\r
+\r
+Note that this is nicely reproducible by an ordinary user using\r
+forkpty and some setup around that (raw termios + ECHO). And it is\r
+present in kernels at least after commit\r
+d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc (pty: Rework the pty layer to\r
+use the normal buffering logic) in 2.6.31-rc3.\r
+\r
+js: add more info to the commit log\r
+js: switch to bool\r
+js: lock unconditionally\r
+js: lock only the tty->ops->write call\r
+\r
+References: CVE-2014-0196\r
+Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>\r
+Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>\r
+Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>\r
+Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>\r
+Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>\r
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>\r
+\r
+---\r
+ drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 4 ++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c\r
++++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c\r
+@@ -2066,8 +2066,12 @@ static ssize_t n_tty_write(struct tty_st\r
+ if (tty->ops->flush_chars)\r
+ tty->ops->flush_chars(tty);\r
+ } else {\r
++ struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data;\r
++\r
+ while (nr > 0) {\r
++ mutex_lock(&ldata->output_lock);\r
+ c = tty->ops->write(tty, b, nr);\r
++ mutex_unlock(&ldata->output_lock);\r
+ if (c < 0) {\r
+ retval = c;\r
+ goto break_out;\r
+\r