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<entry>
<title>devpts: fix null pointer dereference on failed memory allocation</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T10:54:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T14:40:27+00:00</published>
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commit 5353ed8deedee9e5acb9f896e9032158f5d998de upstream.

An ENOMEM when creating a pair tty in tty_ldisc_setup causes a null
pointer dereference in devpts_kill_index because tty-&gt;link-&gt;driver_data
is NULL.  The oops was triggered with the pty stressor in stress-ng when
in a low memory condition.

tty_init_dev tries to clean up a tty_ldisc_setup ENOMEM error by calling
release_tty, however, this ultimately tries to clean up the NULL pair'd
tty in pty_unix98_remove, triggering the Oops.

Add check to pty_unix98_remove to only clean up fsi if it is not NULL.

Ooops:

[   23.020961] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   23.020976] Modules linked in: ppdev snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec parport_pc snd_hda_core snd_hwdep parport snd_pcm input_leds joydev snd_timer serio_raw snd soundcore i2c_piix4 mac_hid ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core configfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi autofs4 btrfs raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel qxl aes_x86_64 ttm lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper drm_kms_helper cryptd syscopyarea sysfillrect psmouse sysimgblt floppy fb_sys_fops drm pata_acpi jitterentropy_rng drbg ansi_cprng
[   23.020978] CPU: 0 PID: 1452 Comm: stress-ng-pty Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4+ #2
[   23.020978] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[   23.020979] task: ffff88007ba30000 ti: ffff880078ea8000 task.ti: ffff880078ea8000
[   23.020981] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;] ida_remove+0x1f/0x120
[   23.020981] RSP: 0018:ffff880078eabb60  EFLAGS: 00010a03
[   23.020982] RAX: 4444444444444567 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000001f
[   23.020982] RDX: 000000000000014c RSI: 000000000000026f RDI: 0000000000000000
[   23.020982] RBP: ffff880078eabb70 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000036
[   23.020983] R10: 000000000000026f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000026f
[   23.020983] R13: 000000000000026f R14: ffff88007c944b40 R15: 000000000000026f
[   23.020984] FS:  00007f9a2f3cc700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   23.020984] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   23.020985] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000006c81b000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
[   23.020988] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   23.020988] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   23.020988] Stack:
[   23.020989]  0000000000000000 000000000000026f ffff880078eabb90 ffffffff812a5a99
[   23.020990]  0000000000000000 00000000fffffff4 ffff880078eabba8 ffffffff814f9cbe
[   23.020991]  ffff88007965c800 ffff880078eabbc8 ffffffff814eef43 fffffffffffffff4
[   23.020991] Call Trace:
[   23.021000]  [&lt;ffffffff812a5a99&gt;] devpts_kill_index+0x29/0x50
[   23.021002]  [&lt;ffffffff814f9cbe&gt;] pty_unix98_remove+0x2e/0x50
[   23.021006]  [&lt;ffffffff814eef43&gt;] release_tty+0xb3/0x1b0
[   23.021007]  [&lt;ffffffff814f18d4&gt;] tty_init_dev+0xd4/0x1c0
[   23.021011]  [&lt;ffffffff814f9fae&gt;] ptmx_open+0xae/0x190
[   23.021013]  [&lt;ffffffff812254ef&gt;] chrdev_open+0xbf/0x1b0
[   23.021015]  [&lt;ffffffff8121d973&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x203/0x310
[   23.021016]  [&lt;ffffffff81225430&gt;] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
[   23.021017]  [&lt;ffffffff8121ee44&gt;] vfs_open+0x54/0x80
[   23.021018]  [&lt;ffffffff8122b8fc&gt;] ? may_open+0x8c/0x100
[   23.021019]  [&lt;ffffffff8122f26b&gt;] path_openat+0x2eb/0x1440
[   23.021020]  [&lt;ffffffff81230534&gt;] ? putname+0x54/0x60
[   23.021022]  [&lt;ffffffff814f6f97&gt;] ? n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x27/0x100
[   23.021023]  [&lt;ffffffff81231651&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
[   23.021024]  [&lt;ffffffff81230596&gt;] ? getname_flags+0x56/0x1f0
[   23.021026]  [&lt;ffffffff8123fc66&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0x46/0x190
[   23.021027]  [&lt;ffffffff8121f1e4&gt;] do_sys_open+0x124/0x210
[   23.021028]  [&lt;ffffffff8121f2ee&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[   23.021035]  [&lt;ffffffff81845576&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xa8
[   23.021044] Code: 63 28 45 31 e4 eb dd 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 4c 63 d6 48 ba 89 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 4c 89 d0 b9 1f 00 00 00 48 f7 e2 48 89 e5 41 54 53 &lt;8b&gt; 47 10 48 89 fb 8d 3c c5 00 00 00 00 48 c1 ea 09 b8 01 00 00
[   23.021045] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;] ida_remove+0x1f/0x120
[   23.021045]  RSP &lt;ffff880078eabb60&gt;
[   23.021046] CR2: 0000000000000010

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5353ed8deedee9e5acb9f896e9032158f5d998de upstream.

An ENOMEM when creating a pair tty in tty_ldisc_setup causes a null
pointer dereference in devpts_kill_index because tty-&gt;link-&gt;driver_data
is NULL.  The oops was triggered with the pty stressor in stress-ng when
in a low memory condition.

tty_init_dev tries to clean up a tty_ldisc_setup ENOMEM error by calling
release_tty, however, this ultimately tries to clean up the NULL pair'd
tty in pty_unix98_remove, triggering the Oops.

Add check to pty_unix98_remove to only clean up fsi if it is not NULL.

Ooops:

[   23.020961] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   23.020976] Modules linked in: ppdev snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec parport_pc snd_hda_core snd_hwdep parport snd_pcm input_leds joydev snd_timer serio_raw snd soundcore i2c_piix4 mac_hid ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core configfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi autofs4 btrfs raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel qxl aes_x86_64 ttm lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper drm_kms_helper cryptd syscopyarea sysfillrect psmouse sysimgblt floppy fb_sys_fops drm pata_acpi jitterentropy_rng drbg ansi_cprng
[   23.020978] CPU: 0 PID: 1452 Comm: stress-ng-pty Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4+ #2
[   23.020978] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[   23.020979] task: ffff88007ba30000 ti: ffff880078ea8000 task.ti: ffff880078ea8000
[   23.020981] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;] ida_remove+0x1f/0x120
[   23.020981] RSP: 0018:ffff880078eabb60  EFLAGS: 00010a03
[   23.020982] RAX: 4444444444444567 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000001f
[   23.020982] RDX: 000000000000014c RSI: 000000000000026f RDI: 0000000000000000
[   23.020982] RBP: ffff880078eabb70 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000036
[   23.020983] R10: 000000000000026f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000026f
[   23.020983] R13: 000000000000026f R14: ffff88007c944b40 R15: 000000000000026f
[   23.020984] FS:  00007f9a2f3cc700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   23.020984] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   23.020985] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000006c81b000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
[   23.020988] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   23.020988] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   23.020988] Stack:
[   23.020989]  0000000000000000 000000000000026f ffff880078eabb90 ffffffff812a5a99
[   23.020990]  0000000000000000 00000000fffffff4 ffff880078eabba8 ffffffff814f9cbe
[   23.020991]  ffff88007965c800 ffff880078eabbc8 ffffffff814eef43 fffffffffffffff4
[   23.020991] Call Trace:
[   23.021000]  [&lt;ffffffff812a5a99&gt;] devpts_kill_index+0x29/0x50
[   23.021002]  [&lt;ffffffff814f9cbe&gt;] pty_unix98_remove+0x2e/0x50
[   23.021006]  [&lt;ffffffff814eef43&gt;] release_tty+0xb3/0x1b0
[   23.021007]  [&lt;ffffffff814f18d4&gt;] tty_init_dev+0xd4/0x1c0
[   23.021011]  [&lt;ffffffff814f9fae&gt;] ptmx_open+0xae/0x190
[   23.021013]  [&lt;ffffffff812254ef&gt;] chrdev_open+0xbf/0x1b0
[   23.021015]  [&lt;ffffffff8121d973&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x203/0x310
[   23.021016]  [&lt;ffffffff81225430&gt;] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
[   23.021017]  [&lt;ffffffff8121ee44&gt;] vfs_open+0x54/0x80
[   23.021018]  [&lt;ffffffff8122b8fc&gt;] ? may_open+0x8c/0x100
[   23.021019]  [&lt;ffffffff8122f26b&gt;] path_openat+0x2eb/0x1440
[   23.021020]  [&lt;ffffffff81230534&gt;] ? putname+0x54/0x60
[   23.021022]  [&lt;ffffffff814f6f97&gt;] ? n_tty_ioctl_helper+0x27/0x100
[   23.021023]  [&lt;ffffffff81231651&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
[   23.021024]  [&lt;ffffffff81230596&gt;] ? getname_flags+0x56/0x1f0
[   23.021026]  [&lt;ffffffff8123fc66&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0x46/0x190
[   23.021027]  [&lt;ffffffff8121f1e4&gt;] do_sys_open+0x124/0x210
[   23.021028]  [&lt;ffffffff8121f2ee&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[   23.021035]  [&lt;ffffffff81845576&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xa8
[   23.021044] Code: 63 28 45 31 e4 eb dd 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 4c 63 d6 48 ba 89 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 4c 89 d0 b9 1f 00 00 00 48 f7 e2 48 89 e5 41 54 53 &lt;8b&gt; 47 10 48 89 fb 8d 3c c5 00 00 00 00 48 c1 ea 09 b8 01 00 00
[   23.021045] RIP  [&lt;ffffffff813f11ff&gt;] ida_remove+0x1f/0x120
[   23.021045]  RSP &lt;ffff880078eabb60&gt;
[   23.021046] CR2: 0000000000000010

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix OpenSSH pty regression on close</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Bloniarz</name>
<email>brian.bloniarz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-06T21:16:30+00:00</published>
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commit 0f40fbbcc34e093255a2b2d70b6b0fb48c3f39aa upstream.

OpenSSH expects the (non-blocking) read() of pty master to return
EAGAIN only if it has received all of the slave-side output after
it has received SIGCHLD. This used to work on pre-3.12 kernels.

This fix effectively forces non-blocking read() and poll() to
block for parallel i/o to complete for all ttys. It also unwinds
these changes:

1) f8747d4a466ab2cafe56112c51b3379f9fdb7a12
   tty: Fix pty master read() after slave closes

2) 52bce7f8d4fc633c9a9d0646eef58ba6ae9a3b73
   pty, n_tty: Simplify input processing on final close

3) 1a48632ffed61352a7810ce089dc5a8bcd505a60
   pty: Fix input race when closing

Inspired by analysis and patch from Marc Aurele La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;

Reported-by: Volth &lt;openssh@volth.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Aurele La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;
BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52
BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2492
Signed-off-by: Brian Bloniarz &lt;brian.bloniarz@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0f40fbbcc34e093255a2b2d70b6b0fb48c3f39aa upstream.

OpenSSH expects the (non-blocking) read() of pty master to return
EAGAIN only if it has received all of the slave-side output after
it has received SIGCHLD. This used to work on pre-3.12 kernels.

This fix effectively forces non-blocking read() and poll() to
block for parallel i/o to complete for all ttys. It also unwinds
these changes:

1) f8747d4a466ab2cafe56112c51b3379f9fdb7a12
   tty: Fix pty master read() after slave closes

2) 52bce7f8d4fc633c9a9d0646eef58ba6ae9a3b73
   pty, n_tty: Simplify input processing on final close

3) 1a48632ffed61352a7810ce089dc5a8bcd505a60
   pty: Fix input race when closing

Inspired by analysis and patch from Marc Aurele La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;

Reported-by: Volth &lt;openssh@volth.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Aurele La France &lt;tsi@tuyoix.net&gt;
BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52
BugLink: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2492
Signed-off-by: Brian Bloniarz &lt;brian.bloniarz@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>devpts: more pty driver interface cleanups</title>
<updated>2016-04-26T22:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-26T03:04:08+00:00</published>
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This is more prep-work for the upcoming pty changes.  Still just code
cleanup with no actual semantic changes.

This removes a bunch pointless complexity by just having the slave pty
side remember the dentry associated with the devpts slave rather than
the inode.  That allows us to remove all the "look up the dentry" code
for when we want to remove it again.

Together with moving the tty pointer from "inode-&gt;i_private" to
"dentry-&gt;d_fsdata" and getting rid of pointless inode locking, this
removes about 30 lines of code.  Not only is the end result smaller,
it's simpler and easier to understand.

The old code, for example, depended on the d_find_alias() to not just
find the dentry, but also to check that it is still hashed, which in
turn validated the tty pointer in the inode.

That is a _very_ roundabout way to say "invalidate the cached tty
pointer when the dentry is removed".

The new code just does

	dentry-&gt;d_fsdata = NULL;

in devpts_pty_kill() instead, invalidating the tty pointer rather more
directly and obviously.  Don't do something complex and subtle when the
obvious straightforward approach will do.

The rest of the patch (ie apart from code deletion and the above tty
pointer clearing) is just switching the calling convention to pass the
dentry or file pointer around instead of the inode.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is more prep-work for the upcoming pty changes.  Still just code
cleanup with no actual semantic changes.

This removes a bunch pointless complexity by just having the slave pty
side remember the dentry associated with the devpts slave rather than
the inode.  That allows us to remove all the "look up the dentry" code
for when we want to remove it again.

Together with moving the tty pointer from "inode-&gt;i_private" to
"dentry-&gt;d_fsdata" and getting rid of pointless inode locking, this
removes about 30 lines of code.  Not only is the end result smaller,
it's simpler and easier to understand.

The old code, for example, depended on the d_find_alias() to not just
find the dentry, but also to check that it is still hashed, which in
turn validated the tty pointer in the inode.

That is a _very_ roundabout way to say "invalidate the cached tty
pointer when the dentry is removed".

The new code just does

	dentry-&gt;d_fsdata = NULL;

in devpts_pty_kill() instead, invalidating the tty pointer rather more
directly and obviously.  Don't do something complex and subtle when the
obvious straightforward approach will do.

The rest of the patch (ie apart from code deletion and the above tty
pointer clearing) is just switching the calling convention to pass the
dentry or file pointer around instead of the inode.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devpts: clean up interface to pty drivers</title>
<updated>2016-04-18T20:43:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-16T22:16:07+00:00</published>
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This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that

    struct inode *ptmx_inode

be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.

By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward.  In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.

The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:

 - the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
   instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.

   NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
   as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
   internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
   way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.

 - the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
   also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.

   So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
   ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
   (devpts_put_ref()).

 - the pty master "tty-&gt;driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
   not the ptmx inode.

 - because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
   base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
   gets the ref on the superblock.

 - the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
   that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
   quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
   to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
   straightforward.

In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.

The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/.  And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.

This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that

    struct inode *ptmx_inode

be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.

By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward.  In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.

The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:

 - the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
   instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.

   NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
   as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
   internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
   way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.

 - the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
   also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.

   So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
   ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
   (devpts_put_ref()).

 - the pty master "tty-&gt;driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
   not the ptmx inode.

 - because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
   base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
   gets the ref on the superblock.

 - the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
   that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
   quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
   to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
   straightforward.

In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.

The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/.  And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.

This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 4.5-rc4 into tty-next</title>
<updated>2016-02-14T22:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-14T22:36:04+00:00</published>
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We want the fixes in here, and this resolves a merge error in tty_io.c

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We want the fixes in here, and this resolves a merge error in tty_io.c

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close</title>
<updated>2016-02-07T07:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton R. Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T19:56:58+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt;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 &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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 -&gt;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 &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pty: fix possible use after free of tty-&gt;driver_data</title>
<updated>2016-02-07T07:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton R. Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T14:07:43+00:00</published>
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This change fixes a bug for a corner case where we have the the last
release from a pty master/slave coming from a previously opened /dev/tty
file. When this happens, the tty-&gt;driver_data can be stale, due to all
ptmx or pts/N files having already been closed before (and thus the inode
related to these files, which tty-&gt;driver_data points to, being already
freed/destroyed).

The fix here is to keep a reference on the opened master ptmx inode.
We maintain the inode referenced until the final pty_unix98_shutdown,
and only pass this inode to devpts_kill_index.

Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.29+
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This change fixes a bug for a corner case where we have the the last
release from a pty master/slave coming from a previously opened /dev/tty
file. When this happens, the tty-&gt;driver_data can be stale, due to all
ptmx or pts/N files having already been closed before (and thus the inode
related to these files, which tty-&gt;driver_data points to, being already
freed/destroyed).

The fix here is to keep a reference on the opened master ptmx inode.
We maintain the inode referenced until the final pty_unix98_shutdown,
and only pass this inode to devpts_kill_index.

Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.29+
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Use termios c_*flag macros</title>
<updated>2016-01-28T22:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T04:36:15+00:00</published>
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Expressions of the form "tty-&gt;termios.c_*flag &amp; FLAG"
are more clearly expressed with the termios flags macros,
I_FLAG(), C_FLAG(), O_FLAG(), and L_FLAG().

Convert treewide.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Expressions of the form "tty-&gt;termios.c_*flag &amp; FLAG"
are more clearly expressed with the termios flags macros,
I_FLAG(), C_FLAG(), O_FLAG(), and L_FLAG().

Convert treewide.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pty: Remove pty_unix98_shutdown()</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T22:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-10T05:13:50+00:00</published>
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The tty core invokes the optional driver shutdown() just before
the optional driver remove() (shutdown() has access to the termios
and remove() does not). Because pty drivers must prevent the default
remove() action, the Unix98 pty drivers define a dummy remove() function.

Instead, release the slave index in the remove() method and delete the
optional shutdown() method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The tty core invokes the optional driver shutdown() just before
the optional driver remove() (shutdown() has access to the termios
and remove() does not). Because pty drivers must prevent the default
remove() action, the Unix98 pty drivers define a dummy remove() function.

Instead, release the slave index in the remove() method and delete the
optional shutdown() method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Fix tty_init_termios() declaration</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T22:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-10T05:13:48+00:00</published>
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tty_init_termios() never returns an error; re-declare as void. Remove
unnecessary error handling from callers. Remove extern declarations
of tty_free_termios() and free_tty_struct() and re-declare in file
scope.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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tty_init_termios() never returns an error; re-declare as void. Remove
unnecessary error handling from callers. Remove extern declarations
of tty_free_termios() and free_tty_struct() and re-declare in file
scope.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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