[PATCH v2 2/2] tty: vcc: hold port lock when clearing tty pointer in vcc_cleanup

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:10:55 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-serial,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.sparclinux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Joshua Rogers <[email protected]>

vcc_cleanup() sets port->tty to NULL without holding port->lock, racing
with vcc_event() LDC callbacks that read port->tty under port->lock and
then use tty->port. This can cause a use-after-free when the callback
dereferences tty->port after cleanup has already destroyed and freed it.

Assisted-by: AISLE:Snapshot
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Rogers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/tty/vcc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vcc.c b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
index 3947bd2b75ac..9adb533f7034 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vcc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vcc.c
@@ -986,7 +986,8 @@ static void vcc_cleanup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 	port = vcc_get(tty->index, true);
 	if (port) {
-		port->tty = NULL;
+		scoped_guard(spinlock_irqsave, &port->lock)
+			port->tty = NULL;
 
 		if (port->removed) {
 			vcc_table_remove(tty->index);

-- 
2.55.0