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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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include/linux/devpts_fs.h
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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
int devpts_new_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode);
void devpts_kill_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode, int idx);
void devpts_add_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode);
void devpts_del_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode);
/* mknod in devpts */
struct inode *devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode, dev_t device, int index,
void *priv);
@@ -32,6 +34,8 @@ void devpts_pty_kill(struct inode *inode);
/* Dummy stubs in the no-pty case */
static inline int devpts_new_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode) { return -EINVAL; }
static inline void devpts_kill_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode, int idx) { }
static inline void devpts_add_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode) { }
static inline void devpts_del_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode) { }
static inline struct inode *devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode,
dev_t device, int index, void *priv)
{