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author | Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> | 2016-01-14 17:56:58 -0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-02-25 12:01:14 -0800 |
commit | 1bdf16025dfc5ed335f3d7d8bbe78461583105fc (patch) | |
tree | 61ef855619c10bd19eb67255a9ac64bc5086175e /drivers/zorro/.gitignore | |
parent | 3ceeb564198cf81863c16d76572306e57e833963 (diff) |
pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close
commit 1f55c718c290616889c04946864a13ef30f64929 upstream.
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>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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