In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: n_gsm: fix deadlock and link starvation in outgoing data path
The current implementation queues up new control and user packets as needed and processes this queue down to the ldisc in the same code path. That means that the upper and the lower layer are hard coupled in the code. Due to this deadlocks can happen as seen below while transmitting data, especially during ldisc congestion. Furthermore, the data channels starve the control channel on high transmission load on the ldisc.
Introduce an additional control channel data queue to prevent timeouts and link hangups during ldisc congestion. This is being processed before the user channel data queue in gsm_data_kick(), i.e. with the highest priority. Put the queue to ldisc data path into a workqueue and trigger it whenever new data has been put into the transmission queue. Change gsm_dlci_data_sweep() accordingly to fill up the transmission queue until TX_THRESH_HI. This solves the locking issue, keeps latency low and provides good performance on high data load. Note that now all packets from a DLCI are removed from the internal queue if the associated DLCI was closed. This ensures that no data is sent by the introduced write task to an already closed DLCI.
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, test_v24_loop/124 lock: serial8250_ports+0x3a8/0x7500, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: test_v24_loop/124, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 PID: 124 Comm: test_v24_loop Tainted: G O 5.18.0-rc2 #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 do_raw_spin_lock+0x76/0xa0 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x72/0x80 uart_write_room+0x3b/0xc0 gsm_data_kick+0x14b/0x240 [n_gsm] gsmld_write_wakeup+0x35/0x70 [n_gsm] tty_wakeup+0x53/0x60 tty_port_default_wakeup+0x1b/0x30 serial8250_tx_chars+0x12f/0x220 serial8250_handle_irq.part.0+0xfe/0x150 serial8250_default_handle_irq+0x48/0x80...