From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] tty: n_hdlc: fix read() hangup race
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:20:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028132049.728457-3-johan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028132049.728457-1-johan@kernel.org>
Make sure to set the task state before checking the break conditions in
the read() wait loop to avoid missing a racing wakeup.
Note that before commit c96cf923a98d ("tty: Don't block on IO when ldisc
change is pending") a racing task hanging up the tty could get stuck in
uninterruptible sleep when there are blocked readers, but since then
read() incorrectly returns -EAGAIN instead.
The false-positive stuck hangup issue was flagged by an LLM.
Fixes: 1035b63d3c6f ("n_hdlc: fix read and write locking")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c b/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
index 0fbc44968a44..02676ae9b112 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
@@ -431,6 +431,8 @@ static ssize_t n_hdlc_tty_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
add_wait_queue(&tty->read_wait, &wait);
for (;;) {
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+
if (test_bit(TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, &tty->flags)) {
ret = -EIO;
break;
@@ -438,8 +440,6 @@ static ssize_t n_hdlc_tty_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
if (tty_hung_up_p(file))
break;
- set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-
rbuf = n_hdlc_buf_get(&n_hdlc->rx_buf_list);
if (rbuf)
break;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 13:20 [PATCH 0/3] tty: n_hdlc: fix hangup handling Johan Hovold
2026-10-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] tty: n_hdlc: fix missing write() hangup check Johan Hovold
2026-10-28 13:20 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-10-28 13:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] tty: n_hdlc: fix read() " Johan Hovold
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