tty: Handle problem if line discipline does not have receive_buf
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 09:46:58 +0000 (10:46 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2019 18:43:04 +0000 (19:43 +0100)
commit 27cfb3a53be46a54ec5e0bd04e51995b74c90343 upstream.

Some tty line disciplines do not have a receive buf callback, so
properly check for that before calling it.  If they do not have this
callback, just eat the character quietly, as we can't fail this call.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c

index c1cff2b455aef328c3bb87fc2b325e10e162b2e5..5b86ebc76a8a232716cda1466e1c5483e6962a43 100644 (file)
@@ -2297,7 +2297,8 @@ static int tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, char __user *p)
                return -EFAULT;
        tty_audit_tiocsti(tty, ch);
        ld = tty_ldisc_ref_wait(tty);
-       ld->ops->receive_buf(tty, &ch, &mbz, 1);
+       if (ld->ops->receive_buf)
+               ld->ops->receive_buf(tty, &ch, &mbz, 1);
        tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
        return 0;
 }