TTY: pty, fix pty counting
tty_operations->remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
->tty_shutdown
->tty_driver_remove_tty
->tty_operations->remove
However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations->shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as ->shutdown.
So tty_operations->remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.
I see this was already reported at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.
This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in ->install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty->link). So ->install is
called once, but ->remove twice, for both tty and tty->link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty->link and divide the count by 2 for
user.
And to have ->remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations->shutdown).
While at it, let's document that when ->shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 9deeac8..ecdaeb9 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
*
* This routine is called synchronously when a particular tty device
* is closed for the last time freeing up the resources.
+ * Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
+ * This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
+ * via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
*
*
* void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);