tree 9cdd79e4cc6f57b01848a20d5f79fcf46d6e9f16
parent 68cb4f8e246bbbc649980be0628cae9265870a91
author Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1258511743 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1260573485 -0800

devpts_get_tty() should validate inode

devpts_get_tty() assumes that the inode passed in is associated with a valid
pty.  But if the only reference to the pty is via a bind-mount, the inode
passed to devpts_get_tty() while valid, would refer to a pty that no longer
exists.

With a lot of debug effort, Grzegorz Nosek developed a small program (see
below) to reproduce a crash on recent kernels. This crash is a regression
introduced by the commit:

	commit 527b3e4773628b30d03323a2cb5fb0d84441990f
	Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
	Date:   Mon Oct 13 10:43:08 2008 +0100

To fix, ensure that the dentry associated with the inode has not yet been
deleted/unhashed by devpts_pty_kill().

See also:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-July/019273.html 

tty-bug.c:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <linux/fs.h>

void dummy(int sig)
{
}

static int child(void *unused)
{
	int fd;

	signal(SIGINT, dummy); signal(SIGHUP, dummy);
	pause(); /* cheesy synchronisation to wait for /dev/pts/0 to appear */

	mount("/dev/pts/0", "/dev/console", NULL, MS_BIND, NULL);
	sleep(2);

	fd = open("/dev/console", O_RDWR);
	dup(0); dup(0);
	write(1, "Hello world!\n", sizeof("Hello world!\n")-1);
	return 0;
}

int main(void)
{
	pid_t pid;
	char *stack;

	stack = malloc(16384);
	pid = clone(child, stack+16384, CLONE_NEWNS|SIGCHLD, NULL);

	open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK);

	unlockpt(fd); grantpt(fd);

	sleep(2);
	kill(pid, SIGHUP);
	sleep(1);
	return 0; /* exit before child opens /dev/console */
}

Reported-by: Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain.pl>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>