kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c, branch master

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet, and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree to protect our sanity. The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back. Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tty: use u8 for flags

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

This makes all those 'char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8. This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Note that we do not change signedness as we compile with -funsigned-char. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-18-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: use u8 for chars

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

This makes all those 'unsigned char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8. This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Flags to be next. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Peter Ujfalusi Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-17-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::buf() hooks operate on size_t

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

Count passed to tty_ldisc_ops::receive_buf*(), ::lookahead_buf(), and returned from ::receive_buf2() is expected to be size_t. So set it to size_t to unify with the rest of the code. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-16-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'tty-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2022-01-12T19:21:52+00:00

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver updates for 5.17-rc1. Nothing major in here, just lots of good updates and fixes, including: - more tty core cleanups from Jiri as well as mxser driver cleanups. This is the majority of the core diffstat - tty documentation updates from Jiri - platform_get_irq() updates - various serial driver updates for new features and hardware - fifo usage for 8250 console, reducing cpu load a lot - LED fix for keyboards, long-time bugfix that went through many revisions - minor cleanups All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems" * tag 'tty-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (119 commits) serial: core: Keep mctrl register state and cached copy in sync serial: stm32: correct loop for dma error handling serial: stm32: fix flow control transfer in DMA mode serial: stm32: rework TX DMA state condition serial: stm32: move tx dma terminate DMA to shutdown serial: pl011: Drop redundant DTR/RTS preservation on close/open serial: pl011: Drop CR register reset on set_termios serial: pl010: Drop CR register reset on set_termios serial: liteuart: fix MODULE_ALIAS serial: 8250_bcm7271: Fix return error code in case of dma_alloc_coherent() failure Revert "serdev: BREAK/FRAME/PARITY/OVERRUN notification prototype V2" tty: goldfish: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt serdev: BREAK/FRAME/PARITY/OVERRUN notification prototype V2 tty: serial: meson: Drop the legacy compatible strings and clock code serial: pmac_zilog: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt serial: bcm63xx: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt serial: ar933x: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt serial: vt8500: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt serial: altera_jtaguart: Use platform_get_irq_optional() to get the interrupt serial: pxa: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt ...

hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD

2021-12-18T12:32:48+00:00

The previous commit 3e0588c291d6 ("hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev") reorder the kfree operations and unregister_netdev operation to prevent UAF. This commit improves the previous one by also deferring the nullify of the ax->tty pointer. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference bug occurs. Partial of the stack trace is shown below. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000538 RIP: 0010:ax_xmit+0x1f9/0x400 ... Call Trace: dev_hard_start_xmit+0xec/0x320 sch_direct_xmit+0xea/0x240 __qdisc_run+0x166/0x5c0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2c7/0xaf0 ax25_std_establish_data_link+0x59/0x60 ax25_connect+0x3a0/0x500 ? security_socket_connect+0x2b/0x40 __sys_connect+0x96/0xc0 ? __hrtimer_init+0xc0/0xc0 ? common_nsleep+0x2e/0x50 ? switch_fpu_return+0x139/0x1a0 __x64_sys_connect+0x11/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The crash point is shown as below static void ax_encaps(...) { ... set_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &ax->tty->flags); // ax->tty = NULL! ... } By placing the nullify action after the unregister_netdev, the ax->tty pointer won't be assigned as NULL net_device framework layer is well synchronized. Signed-off-by: Lin Ma Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge 5.16-rc4 into tty-next

2021-12-06T08:32:47+00:00

We need the tty/serial driver fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: remove file from tty_ldisc_ops::ioctl and compat_ioctl

2021-11-25T17:36:27+00:00

After the previous patches, noone needs 'file' parameter in neither ioctl hook from tty_ldisc_ops. So remove 'file' from both of them. Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski [NFC] Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211122094529.24171-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hamradio: fix macro redefine warning

2021-11-23T11:38:13+00:00

MIPS/IA64 define END as assembly function ending, which conflict with END definition in mkiss.c, just undef it at first Reported-by: lkp@intel.com Signed-off-by: Huang Pei Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev

2021-11-09T11:48:39+00:00

There is a possible race condition (use-after-free) like below (USE) | (FREE) ax25_sendmsg | ax25_queue_xmit | dev_queue_xmit | __dev_queue_xmit | __dev_xmit_skb | sch_direct_xmit | ... xmit_one | netdev_start_xmit | tty_ldisc_kill __netdev_start_xmit | mkiss_close ax_xmit | kfree ax_encaps | | Even though there are two synchronization primitives before the kfree: 1. wait_for_completion(&ax->dead). This can prevent the race with routines from mkiss_ioctl. However, it cannot stop the routine coming from upper layer, i.e., the ax25_sendmsg. 2. netif_stop_queue(ax->dev). It seems that this line of code aims to halt the transmit queue but it fails to stop the routine that already being xmit. This patch reorder the kfree after the unregister_netdev to avoid the possible UAF as the unregister_netdev() is well synchronized and won't return if there is a running routine. Signed-off-by: Lin Ma Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c, branch master

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

tty: use u8 for flags

tty: use u8 for chars

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::*buf*() hooks operate on size_t

Merge tag 'tty-5.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD

Merge 5.16-rc4 into tty-next

tty: remove file from tty_ldisc_ops::ioctl and compat_ioctl

hamradio: fix macro redefine warning

hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::buf() hooks operate on size_t