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pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close

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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 ->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>
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Herton R. Krzesinski
2016-01-14 17:56:58 -02:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 2831c89f42
commit 1f55c718c2
3 changed files with 30 additions and 3 deletions
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fs/devpts/inode.c
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@@ -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