Patch "tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

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

tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
tty-fix-gpf-in-flush_to_ldisc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:25:08 -0500
Subject: tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()

From: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>

commit 9ce119f318ba1a07c29149301f1544b6c4bea52a upstream.

A line discipline which does not define a receive_buf() method can can cause a GPF if data is ever received [1]. Oddly, this was known to the author of n_tracesink in 2011, but never fixed.

[1] GPF report

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
    IP: [<          (null)>]           (null)
    PGD 3752d067 PUD 37a7b067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 2 PID: 148 Comm: kworker/u10:2 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc2+ #51
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
    task: ffff88006da94440 ti: ffff88006db60000 task.ti: ffff88006db60000
    RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>]  [<          (null)>]           (null)
    RSP: 0018:ffff88006db67b50  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000102 RBX: ffff88003ab32f88 RCX: 0000000000000102
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88003ab330a6 RDI: ffff88003aabd388
    RBP: ffff88006db67c48 R08: ffff88003ab32f9c R09: ffff88003ab31fb0
    R10: ffff88003ab32fa8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000
    R13: ffff88006db67c20 R14: ffffffff863df820 R15: ffff88003ab31fb8
    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000037938000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Stack:
     ffffffff829f46f1 ffff88006da94bf8 ffff88006da94bf8 0000000000000000
     ffff88003ab31fb0 ffff88003aabd438 ffff88003ab31ff8 ffff88006430fd90
     ffff88003ab32f9c ffffed0007557a87 1ffff1000db6cf78 ffff88003ab32078
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff8127cf91>] process_one_work+0x8f1/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2030
     [<ffffffff8127df14>] worker_thread+0xd4/0x1180 kernel/workqueue.c:2162
     [<ffffffff8128faaf>] kthread+0x1cf/0x270 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1302
     [<ffffffff852a7c2f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:468
    Code:  Bad RIP value.
    RIP  [<          (null)>]           (null)
     RSP <ffff88006db67b50>
    CR2: 0000000000000000
    ---[ end trace a587f8947e54d6ea ]---

---
 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty, stru
 		count = disc->ops->receive_buf2(tty, p, f, count);
 	else {
 		count = min_t(int, count, tty->receive_room);
-		if (count)
+		if (count && disc->ops->receive_buf)
 			disc->ops->receive_buf(tty, p, f, count);
 	}
 	return count;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.3/n_tty-fix-unsafe-reference-to-other-ldisc.patch queue-4.3/tty-fix-unsafe-ldisc-reference-via-ioctl-tiocgetd.patch queue-4.3/n_tty-fix-poll-after-buffer-limited-eof-push-read.patch queue-4.3/tty-fix-gpf-in-flush_to_ldisc.patch queue-4.3/tty-retry-failed-reopen-if-tty-teardown-in-progress.patch