TTY: fix tty_wait_until_sent on 64-bit machines
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:39:06 +0000 (10:39 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:22:31 +0000 (13:22 +0100)
commit565acebb005569dc8527a9b2ad2c904ba92bf9d1
tree81d0a2072deba9bf7db3c1518f94e6d3f34d3a50
parentda90e1a218120d6a04cda86b09899de98132ff04
TTY: fix tty_wait_until_sent on 64-bit machines

commit 79fbf4a550ed6a22e1ae1516113e6c7fa5d56a53 upstream.

Fix overflow bug in tty_wait_until_sent on 64-bit machines, where an
infinite timeout (0) would be passed to the underlying tty-driver's
wait_until_sent-operation as a negative timeout (-1), causing it to
return immediately.

This manifests itself for example as tcdrain() returning immediately,
drivers not honouring the drain flags when setting terminal attributes,
or even dropped data on close as a requested infinite closing-wait
timeout would be ignored.

The first symptom  was reported by Asier LLANO who noted that tcdrain()
returned prematurely when using the ftdi_sio usb-serial driver.

Fix this by passing 0 rather than MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT (LONG_MAX) to the
underlying tty driver.

Note that the serial-core wait_until_sent-implementation is not affected
by this bug due to a lucky chance (comparison to an unsigned maximum
timeout), and neither is the cyclades one that had an explicit check for
negative timeouts, but all other tty drivers appear to be affected.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: ZIV-Asier Llano Palacios <asier.llano@cgglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c