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Linus Torvalds 8fe07159fc tty: avoid using vfs_iocb_iter_write() for redirected console writes 
commit a9cbbb80e3 upstream.

It turns out that the vfs_iocb_iter_{read,write}() functions are
entirely broken, and don't actually use the passed-in file pointer for
IO - only for the preparatory work (permission checking and for the
write_iter function lookup).

That worked fine for overlayfs, which always builds the new iocb with
the same file pointer that it passes in, but in the general case it ends
up doing nonsensical things (and could cause an iterator call that
doesn't even match the passed-in file pointer).

This subtly broke the tty conversion to write_iter in commit
9bb48c82ac ("tty: implement write_iter"), because the console
redirection didn't actually end up redirecting anything, since the
passed-in file pointer was basically ignored, and the actual write was
done with the original non-redirected console tty after all.

The main visible effect of this is that the console messages were no
longer logged to /var/log/boot.log during graphical boot.

Fix the issue by simply not using the vfs write "helper" function at
all, and just redirecting the write entirely internally to the tty
layer.  Do the target writability permission checks when actually
registering the target tty with TIOCCONS instead of at write time.

Fixes: 9bb48c82ac ("tty: implement write_iter")
Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2021-02-03 23:28:36 +01:00
arch x86/sev-es: Handle string port IO to kernel memory properly 2021-01-27 11:55:28 +01:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: Add decode for BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED 2021-01-19 18:27:29 +01:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: xor - Fix divide error in do_xor_speed() 2021-01-27 11:54:52 +01:00
Documentation driver core: Fix device link device name collision 2021-01-27 11:55:18 +01:00
drivers tty: avoid using vfs_iocb_iter_write() for redirected console writes 2021-02-03 23:28:36 +01:00
fs io_uring: fix sleeping under spin in __io_clean_op 2021-01-30 13:55:19 +01:00
include RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Fix network_hdr_type reported in WC 2021-01-30 13:55:18 +01:00
init rcu-tasks: Move RCU-tasks initialization to before early_initcall() 2021-01-19 18:27:28 +01:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel printk: fix string termination for record_print_text() 2021-01-30 13:55:20 +01:00
lib iov_iter: fix the uaccess area in copy_compat_iovec_from_user 2021-01-27 11:55:09 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: fix a race on nr_swap_pages 2021-01-30 13:55:19 +01:00
net tcp: Fix potential use-after-free due to double kfree() 2021-01-27 11:55:28 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix possible hang in xdpsock with multiple threads 2020-12-30 11:53:49 +01:00
scripts Revert "kconfig: remove 'kvmconfig' and 'xenconfig' shorthands" 2021-01-23 16:03:57 +01:00
security dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name 2021-01-19 18:27:29 +01:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Avoid checking jack on system suspend 2021-01-27 11:55:28 +01:00
tools tools: Factor HOSTCC, HOSTLD, HOSTAR definitions 2021-01-30 13:55:19 +01:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly 2021-01-12 20:18:22 +01:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-10 15:30:13 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.12 2021-01-30 13:55:20 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.