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authorHerton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>2016-01-14 17:56:58 -0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-06 23:45:46 -0800
commit1f55c718c290616889c04946864a13ef30f64929 (patch)
treed578b6dee5f2eb8ebe8f73ccba2b79a31252c52c /fs
parent2831c89f42dcde440cfdccb9fee9f42d54bbc1ef (diff)
pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close
Considering current pty code and multiple devpts instances, it's possible to umount a devpts file system while a program still has /dev/tty opened pointing to a previosuly closed pty pair in that instance. In the case all ptmx and pts/N files are closed, umount can be done. If the program closes /dev/tty after umount is done, devpts_kill_index will use now an invalid super_block, which was already destroyed in the umount operation after running ->kill_sb. This is another "use after free" type of issue, but now related to the allocated super_block instance. To avoid the problem (warning at ida_remove and potential crashes) for this specific case, I added two functions in devpts which grabs additional references to the super_block, which pty code now uses so it makes sure the super block structure is still valid until pty shutdown is done. I also moved the additional inode references to the same functions, which also covered similar case with inode being freed before /dev/tty final close/shutdown. Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+ Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/devpts/inode.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index 1f107fd51328..655f21f99160 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -575,6 +575,26 @@ void devpts_kill_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode, int idx)
mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
}
+/*
+ * pty code needs to hold extra references in case of last /dev/tty close
+ */
+
+void devpts_add_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
+{
+ struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
+
+ atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
+ ihold(ptmx_inode);
+}
+
+void devpts_del_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
+{
+ struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
+
+ iput(ptmx_inode);
+ deactivate_super(sb);
+}
+
/**
* devpts_pty_new -- create a new inode in /dev/pts/
* @ptmx_inode: inode of the master