patch "serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485)" added to tty-linus

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

serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485)

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:14:46 -0800
Subject: serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485)

The omap-serial driver emulates RS485 delays using software timers, but neglects to clamp the input values from the unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485). Because the software implementation busy-waits, malicious userspace could stall the cpu for ~49 days.

Clamp the input values to < 100ms.

---
 drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index b645f9228ed7..27d3b978f16e 100644
@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ static inline void serial_omap_add_console_port(struct uart_omap_port *up)
 
 /* Enable or disable the rs485 support */
 static int
-serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf)
+serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485)
 {
 	struct uart_omap_port *up = to_uart_omap_port(port);
 	unsigned int mode;

@@ -1356,8 +1356,12 @@ serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf)
 	up->ier = 0;
 	serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0);
 
+	/* Clamp the delays to [0, 100ms] */
+	rs485->delay_rts_before_send = min(rs485->delay_rts_before_send, 100U);
+	rs485->delay_rts_after_send  = min(rs485->delay_rts_after_send, 100U);
+
 	/* store new config */
-	port->rs485 = *rs485conf;
+	port->rs485 = *rs485;
 
 	/*
 	 * Just as a precaution, only allow rs485

2.7.0