tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get()
authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:12:31 +0000 (20:12 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 May 2018 19:58:14 +0000 (12:58 -0700)
commit545906124041557d02f0dd29a59aef3182fd3ccb
treeba189452e5c3775f5976a5953cf361c0a7c66a5f
parent877f418171af2aae702cf0878ae2ec44eab5e89a
tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get()

commit bcdd0ca8cb8730573afebcaae4138f8f4c8eaa20 upstream.

syzbot is reporting crashes triggered by memory allocation fault injection
at tty_ldisc_get() [1]. As an attempt to handle OOM in a graceful way, we
have tried commit 5362544bebe85071 ("tty: don't panic on OOM in
tty_set_ldisc()"). But we reverted that attempt by commit a8983d01f9b7d600
("Revert "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"") due to reproducible
crash. We should spend resource for finding and fixing race condition bugs
rather than complicate error paths for 2 * sizeof(void *) bytes allocation
failure.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=489d33fa386453859ead58ff5171d43772b13aa3

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+40b7287c2dc987c48c81@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c