linux-stable.git/drivers/tty/pty.c, branch linux-3.8.y

tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three

2013-05-08T03:08:19+00:00

commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde upstream.

We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit
b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then
limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY:
fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both
insufficient and overkill.

It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node
to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill
because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an
idle person from an active one with 'w'.

So this tries to fix the problem properly.  It marks the shared ptmx
node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few
seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual
keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is
active or not.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: do not reset master's packet mode

2013-03-20T20:10:54+00:00

commit b81273a132177edd806476b953f6afeb17b786d5 upstream.

Now that login from util-linux is forced to drop all references to a
TTY which it wants to hangup (to reach reference count 1) we are
seeing issues with telnet. When login closes its last reference to the
slave PTY, it also resets packet mode on the *master* side. And we
have a race here.

What telnet does is fork+exec of `login'. Then there are two
scenarios:
* `login' closes the slave TTY and resets thus master's packet mode,
  but even now telnet properly sets the mode, or
* `telnetd' sets packet mode on the master, `login' closes the slave
  TTY and resets master's packet mode.

The former case is OK. However the latter happens in much more cases,
by the order of magnitude to be precise. So when one tries to login to
such a messed telnet setup, they see the following:
inux login:
            ogin incorrect

Note the missing first letters -- telnet thinks it is still in the
packet mode, so when it receives "linux login" from `login', it
considers "l" as the type of the packet and strips it.

SuS does not mention how the implementation should behave. Both BSDs I
checked (Free and Net) do not reset the flag upon the last close.

By this I am resurrecting an old bug, see References. We are hitting
it regularly now, i.e. with updated util-linux, ergo login.

Here, I am changing a behavior introduced back in 2.1 times. It would
better have a long time testing before goes upstream.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Bryan Mason 
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/11/223
References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504703
References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797042
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pty: return EINVAL for TIOCGPTN for BSD ptys

2013-01-17T21:56:57+00:00

Commit bbb63c514a3464342967237a51a21ea8f61ab951 (drivers:tty:fix up
ENOIOCTLCMD error handling) changed the default return value from tty
ioctl to be ENOTTY and not EINVAL. This is appropriate.

But in case of TIOCGPTN for the old BSD ptys glibc started failing
because it expects EINVAL to be returned. Only then it continues to
obtain the pts name the other way around.

So fix this case by explicit return of EINVAL in this case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Reported-by: Florian Westphal 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: stable  # 3.7+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pty: Mark pty_resize static

2012-11-21T23:43:26+00:00

Nothing outside of drivers/tty/pty.c references pty_resize.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: pty, fix tty buffers leak

2012-11-16T01:18:55+00:00

After commit "TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port", the tty buffers are
not freed in some drivers. This is because tty_port_destructor is not
called whenever a tty_port is freed. This was an assumption I counted
with but was unfortunately untrue. So fix the drivers to fulfil this
assumption.

PTY is one of those, here we just need to use tty_port_put instead of
kfree. (Assuming tty_port_destructor does not need port->ops to be set
which we change here too.)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Add get- ioctls to fetch tty status v3

2012-10-25T19:07:18+00:00

For checkpoint/restore we need to know if tty has
exclusive or packet mode set, as well as if pty
is currently locked. Just to be able to restore
this characteristics.

For this sake the following ioctl codes are introduced

 - TIOCGPKT to get packet mode state
 - TIOCGPTLCK to get Pty locked state
 - TIOCGEXCL to get Exclusive mode state

Note this ioctls are a bit unsafe in terms of data
obtained consistency. The tty characteristics might
be changed right after ioctl complete. Keep it in
mind and use this ioctl carefully.

v2:
 - Use TIOC prefix for ioctl codes (by jslaby@)

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
CC: Alan Cox 
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" 
CC: Pavel Emelyanov 
CC: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: pty - Move TIOCPKT handling into pty.c

2012-10-25T19:07:18+00:00

Since this ioctl is for pty devices only move it to pty.c.

v2:
 - drop PTY_TYPE_MASTER test since it's master peer
   ioctl anyway (by jslaby@)

Suggested-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" 
CC: Pavel Emelyanov 
CC: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port

2012-10-22T23:58:28+00:00

So this is it. The big step why we did all the work over the past
kernel releases. Now everything is prepared, so nothing protects us
from doing that big step.

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The buffers are now in the tty_port structure and we can start
teaching the buffer helpers (insert char/string, flip etc.) to use
tty_port instead of tty_struct all around.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: add port -> tty link

2012-10-22T23:53:40+00:00

For that purpose we have to temporarily introduce a second tty back
pointer into tty_port. It is because serial layer, and maybe others,
still do not use tty_port_tty_set/get. So that we cannot set the
tty_port->tty to NULL at will now.

Yes, the fix would be to convert whole serial layer and all its users
to tty_port_tty_set/get. However we are in the process of removing the
need of tty in most of the call sites, so this would lead to a
duplicated work.

Instead we have now tty_port->itty (internal tty) which will be used
only in flush_to_ldisc. For that one it is ensured that itty is valid
wherever the work is run. IOW, the work is synchronously cancelled
before we set itty to NULL and also before hangup is processed.

After we need only tty_port and not tty_struct in most code, this
shall be changed to tty_port_tty_set/get and itty removed completely.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

TTY: move devpts kill to pty

2012-10-22T23:50:13+00:00

Now that we have control over tty->driver_data in pty, we can just
kill the /dev/pts/ in pty code too. Namely, in ->shutdown hook of
tty. For pty, this is called only once, for whichever end is closed
last. But we don't care, both driver_data are the inode as it used to
be till now.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman