linux/drivers/tty, branch v6.15

serial: sifive: lock port in startup()/shutdown() callbacks

2025-04-15T13:02:39Z

startup()/shutdown() callbacks access SIFIVE_SERIAL_IE_OFFS. The register is also accessed from write() callback. If console were printing and startup()/shutdown() callback gets called, its access to the register could be overwritten. Add port->lock to startup()/shutdown() callbacks to make sure their access to SIFIVE_SERIAL_IE_OFFS is synchronized against write() callback. Fixes: 45c054d0815b ("tty: serial: add driver for the SiFive UART") Signed-off-by: Ryo Takakura Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: John Ogness Rule: add Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20250330003522.386632-1-ryotkkr98%40gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250412001847.183221-1-ryotkkr98@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for all usages of TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT

2025-04-11T14:59:19Z

This requirement was overeagerly loosened in commit 2f83e38a095f ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN"), but as it turns out, (1) the logic I implemented there was inconsistent (apologies!), (2) TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT might actually be a small security risk after all, and (3) TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is only meant to be used by the mouse daemon (GPM or Consolation), which runs as CAP_SYS_ADMIN already. In more detail: 1. The previous patch has inconsistent logic: In commit 2f83e38a095f ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN"), we checked for sel_mode == TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, but overlooked that the lower four bits of this "mode" parameter were actually used as an additional way to pass an argument. So the patch did actually still require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, if any of the mouse button bits are set, but did not require it if none of the mouse buttons bits are set. This logic is inconsistent and was not intentional. We should have the same policies for using TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT independent of the value of the "hidden" mouse button argument. I sent a separate documentation patch to the man page list with more details on TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250223091342.35523-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com/ 2. TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is indeed a potential security risk which can let an attacker simulate "keyboard" input to command line applications on the same terminal, like TIOCSTI and some other TIOCLINUX "selection mode" IOCTLs. By enabling mouse reporting on a terminal and then injecting mouse reports through TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, an attacker can simulate mouse movements on the same terminal, similar to the TIOCSTI keystroke injection attacks that were previously possible with TIOCSTI and other TIOCL_SETSEL selection modes. Many programs (including libreadline/bash) are then prone to misinterpret these mouse reports as normal keyboard input because they do not expect input in the X11 mouse protocol form. The attacker does not have complete control over the escape sequence, but they can at least control the values of two consecutive bytes in the binary mouse reporting escape sequence. I went into more detail on that in the discussion at https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221.0a947528d8f3@gnoack.org/ It is not equally trivial to simulate arbitrary keystrokes as it was with TIOCSTI (commit 83efeeeb3d04 ("tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled")), but the general mechanism is there, and together with the small number of existing legit use cases (see below), it would be better to revert back to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, as it was already the case before commit 2f83e38a095f ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN"). 3. TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is only used by the mouse daemons (GPM or Consolation), and they are the only legit use case: To quote console_codes(4): The mouse tracking facility is intended to return xterm(1)-compatible mouse status reports. Because the console driver has no way to know the device or type of the mouse, these reports are returned in the console input stream only when the virtual terminal driver receives a mouse update ioctl. These ioctls must be generated by a mouse-aware user-mode application such as the gpm(8) daemon. Jared Finder has also confirmed in https://lore.kernel.org/all/491f3df9de6593df8e70dbe77614b026@finder.org/ that Emacs does not call TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT directly, and it would be difficult to find good reasons for doing that, given that it would interfere with the reports that GPM is sending. More information on the interaction between GPM, terminals and the kernel with additional pointers is also available in this patch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a773e48920aa104a65073671effbdee665c105fc.1603963593.git.tammo.block@gmail.com/ For background on who else uses TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT: Debian Code search finds one page of results, the only two known callers are the two mouse daemons GPM and Consolation. (GPM does not show up in the search results because it uses literal numbers to refer to TIOCLINUX-related enums. I looked through GPM by hand instead. TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT is also not used from libgpm.) https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT Cc: Jared Finder Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Hanno Böck Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Kees Cook Cc: stable Fixes: 2f83e38a095f ("tty: Permit some TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN") Signed-off-by: Günther Noack Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411070144.3959-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: msm: Configure correct working mode before starting earlycon

2025-04-11T14:58:47Z

The MSM UART DM controller supports different working modes, e.g. DMA or the "single-character mode", where all reads/writes operate on a single character rather than 4 chars (32-bit) at once. When using earlycon, __msm_console_write() always writes 4 characters at a time, but we don't know which mode the bootloader was using and we don't set the mode either. This causes garbled output if the bootloader was using the single-character mode, because only every 4th character appears in the serial console, e.g. "[ 00oni pi 000xf0[ 00i s 5rm9(l)l s 1 1 SPMTA 7:C 5[ 00A ade k d[ 00ano:ameoi .Q1B[ 00ac _idaM00080oo'" If the bootloader was using the DMA ("DM") mode, output would likely fail entirely. Later, when the full serial driver probes, the port is re-initialized and output works as expected. Fix this also for earlycon by clearing the DMEN register and reset+re-enable the transmitter to apply the change. This ensures the transmitter is in the expected state before writing any output. Cc: stable Fixes: 0efe72963409 ("tty: serial: msm: Add earlycon support") Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408-msm-serial-earlycon-v1-1-429080127530@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12Z

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'tty-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2025-04-03T01:17:33Z

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of serial and tty driver updates for 6.15-rc1. Include in here are the following: - more great tty layer cleanups from Jiri. Someday this will be done, but that's not going to be any year soon... - kdb debug driver reverts to fix a reported issue - lots of .dts binding updates for different devices with serial devices - lots of tiny updates and tweaks and a few bugfixes for different serial drivers. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (79 commits) tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix unused variable 'sport' build warning serial: stm32: do not deassert RS485 RTS GPIO prematurely serial: 8250: add driver for NI UARTs dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: document RZ/N1 binding without DMA serial: icom: fix code format problems serial: sh-sci: Save and restore more registers tty: serial: pl011: remove incorrect of_match_ptr annotation dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: Add support for rk3562 tty: serial: lpuart: only disable CTS instead of overwriting the whole UARTMODIR register tty: caif: removed unused function debugfs_tx() serial: 8250_dma: terminate correct DMA in tx_dma_flush() tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: rename register variables more specifically tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: use port struct directly to simply code tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Use u32 and u8 for register variables tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: disable transmitter before changing RS485 related registers tty: serial: 8250: Add Brainboxes XC devices dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: support i.MX94 tty: serial: 8250: Add some more device IDs dt-bindings: serial: samsung: add exynos7870-uart compatible serial: 8250_dw: Comment possible corner cases in serial_out() implementation ...

Merge tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2025-03-29T18:59:43Z

Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik: - Add sorting of mcount locations at build time - Rework uaccess functions with C exception handling to shorten inline assembly size and enable full inlining. This yields near-optimal code for small constant copies with a ~40kb kernel size increase - Add support for a configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS which allows to generate better code, but also allows to have type checking for debug builds - Optimize get_lowcore() for common callers with alternatives that nearly revert to the pre-relocated lowcore code, while also slightly reducing syscall entry and exit time - Convert MACHINE_HAS_* checks for single facility tests into cpu_has_* style macros that call test_facility(), and for features with additional conditions, add a new ALT_TYPE_FEATURE alternative to provide a static branch via alternative patching. Also, move machine feature detection to the decompressor for early patching and add debugging functionality to easily show which alternatives are patched - Add exception table support to early boot / startup code to get rid of the open coded exception handling - Use asm_inline for all inline assemblies with EX_TABLE or ALTERNATIVE to ensure correct inlining and unrolling decisions - Remove 2k page table leftovers now that s390 has been switched to always allocate 4k page tables - Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool() and remove the architecture-specific kfence_split_mapping() - Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() to silence spurious KASAN warnings from opportunistic ftrace argument tracing - Force __atomic_add_const() variants on s390 to always return void, ensuring compile errors for improper usage - Remove s390's ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough() due to mismatched semantics and lack of known users, relying on asm-generic fallbacks - Signal eventfd in vfio-ap to notify userspace when the guest AP configuration changes, including during mdev removal - Convert mdev_types from an array to a pointer in vfio-ccw and vfio-ap drivers to avoid fake flex array confusion - Cleanup trap code - Remove references to the outdated linux390@de.ibm.com address - Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code * tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (78 commits) s390: Use inline qualifier for all EX_TABLE and ALTERNATIVE inline assemblies s390/kfence: Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool() s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() s390/boot: Ignore vmlinux.map s390/sysctl: Remove "vm/allocate_pgste" sysctl s390: Remove 2k vs 4k page table leftovers s390/tlb: Use mm_has_pgste() instead of mm_alloc_pgste() s390/lowcore: Use lghi instead llilh to clear register s390/syscall: Merge __do_syscall() and do_syscall() s390/spinlock: Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with inline assembly s390/smp: Implement raw_smp_processor_id() with inline assembly s390/current: Implement current with inline assembly s390/lowcore: Use inline qualifier for get_lowcore() inline assembly s390: Move s390 sysctls into their own file under arch/s390 s390/syscall: Simplify syscall_get_arguments() s390/vfio-ap: Notify userspace that guest's AP config changed when mdev removed s390: Remove ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough() s390/mm: Add configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS s390/mm: Convert pgste_val() into function s390/mm: Convert pgprot_val() into function ...

Merge tag 'printk-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

2025-03-28T02:22:24Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - New option "printk.debug_non_panic_cpus" allows to store printk messages from non-panic CPUs during panic. It might be useful when panic() fails. It is disabled by default because it increases the chance to see the messages printed before panic() and on the panic-CPU. - New build option "CONFIG_NULL_TTY_DEFAULT_CONSOLE" allows to build kernel without the virtual terminal support which prefers ttynull over serial console. - Do not unblank suspended consoles. - Some code clean up. * tag 'printk-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk/panic: Add option to allow non-panic CPUs to write to the ring buffer. printk: Add an option to allow ttynull to be a default console device printk: Check CON_SUSPEND when unblanking a console printk: Rename console_start to console_resume printk: Rename console_stop to console_suspend printk: Rename resume_console to console_resume_all printk: Rename suspend_console to console_suspend_all

Merge branch 'for-6.15-console-suspend-api-cleanup' into for-linus

2025-03-27T10:09:34Z

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix unused variable 'sport' build warning

2025-03-24T13:27:10Z

Remove the unused variable 'sport' to avoid the kernel build warning. Fixes: 3cc16ae096f1 ("tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: use port struct directly to simply code") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503210614.2qGlnbIq-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324021051.162676-1-sherry.sun@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: stm32: do not deassert RS485 RTS GPIO prematurely

2025-03-20T15:30:44Z

If stm32_usart_start_tx is called with an empty xmit buffer, RTS GPIO could be deasserted prematurely, as bytes in TX FIFO are still transmitting. So this patch remove rts disable when xmit buffer is empty. Fixes: d7c76716169d ("serial: stm32: Use TC interrupt to deassert GPIO RTS in RS485 mode") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Cheick Traore Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320152540.709091-1-cheick.traore@foss.st.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman