linux/drivers/tty
Linus Torvalds c8c03f1858 pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master
Christian Brauner reported that if you use the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() to
get a slave pty file descriptor, the resulting file descriptor doesn't
look right in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>.  In particular, he wanted to use
readlink() on /proc/self/fd/<fd> to get the pathname of the slave pty
(basically implementing "ptsname{_r}()").

The reason for that was that we had generated the wrong 'struct path'
when we create the pty in ptmx_open().

In particular, the dentry was correct, but the vfsmount pointed to the
mount of the ptmx node. That _can_ be correct - in case you use
"/dev/pts/ptmx" to open the master - but usually is not.  The normal
case is to use /dev/ptmx, which then looks up the pts/ directory, and
then the vfsmount of the ptmx node is obviously the /dev directory, not
the /dev/pts/ directory.

We actually did have the right vfsmount available, but in the wrong
place (it gets looked up in 'devpts_acquire()' when we get a reference
to the pts filesystem), and so ptmx_open() used the wrong mnt pointer.

The end result of this confusion was that the pty worked fine, but when
if you did TIOCGPTPEER to get the slave side of the pty, end end result
would also work, but have that dodgy 'struct path'.

And then when doing "d_path()" on to get the pathname, the vfsmount
would not match the root of the pts directory, and d_path() would return
an empty pathname thinking that the entry had escaped a bind mount into
another mount.

This fixes the problem by making devpts_acquire() return the vfsmount
for the pts filesystem, allowing ptmx_open() to trivially just use the
right mount for the pts dentry, and create the proper 'struct path'.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-17 09:10:48 -07:00
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hvc driver core patches for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-03 20:27:48 -07:00
ipwireless networking: introduce and use skb_put_data() 2017-06-16 11:48:37 -04:00
serdev driver core patches for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-03 20:27:48 -07:00
serial tty/serial fixes for 4.13-rc5 2017-08-13 12:33:35 -07:00
vt vt: fix \e[2m using the wrong placeholder color on graphical consoles 2017-06-09 11:20:08 +02:00
Kconfig devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem. 2016-06-05 10:36:01 -07:00
Makefile tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline 2017-06-03 18:43:46 +09:00
amiserial.c tty: amiserial: drop broken alt-speed support 2017-06-13 11:49:58 +02:00
bfin_jtag_comm.c
cyclades.c tty: cyclades: drop broken alt-speed support 2017-06-13 11:49:58 +02:00
ehv_bytechan.c tty: ehv_bytechan: clean up init error handling 2017-05-18 16:43:55 +02:00
goldfish.c tty: goldfish: Fix a parameter of a call to free_irq 2017-01-12 11:51:25 +01:00
isicom.c tty: Replace ASYNC_INITIALIZED bit and update atomically 2016-04-30 09:26:55 -07:00
metag_da.c timers, drivers/tty/metag_da: Initialize the poll timer as pinned 2016-07-07 10:25:14 +02:00
mips_ejtag_fdc.c timers, drivers/tty/mips_ejtag: Initialize the poll timer as pinned 2016-07-07 10:34:59 +02:00
moxa.c Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/ 2017-04-20 12:02:32 +01:00
moxa.h
mxser.c Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/ 2017-04-20 12:02:32 +01:00
mxser.h
n_gsm.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
n_hdlc.c format-security: move static strings to const 2017-05-08 17:15:14 -07:00
n_null.c tty: handle the case where we cannot restore a line discipline 2017-06-03 18:43:46 +09:00
n_r3964.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
n_tracerouter.c
n_tracesink.c
n_tracesink.h
n_tty.c Fix OpenSSH pty regression on close 2016-05-01 13:22:54 -07:00
nozomi.c tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow 2016-11-29 20:20:07 +01:00
pty.c pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master 2017-08-17 09:10:48 -07:00
rocket.c tty: rocket: drop broken alt-speed support 2017-06-13 11:49:58 +02:00
rocket.h
rocket_int.h
synclink.c networking: introduce and use skb_put_data() 2017-06-16 11:48:37 -04:00
synclink_gt.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
synclinkmp.c networking: introduce and use skb_put_data() 2017-06-16 11:48:37 -04:00
sysrq.c oom: improve oom disable handling 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
tty_audit.c
tty_baudrate.c tty: move baudrate handling code to a file of its own 2017-04-18 18:01:52 +02:00
tty_buffer.c tty_port: Add port client functions 2017-02-03 10:17:02 +01:00
tty_io.c tty: add function to convert device name to number 2017-06-27 09:08:47 +02:00
tty_ioctl.c tty: move baudrate handling code to a file of its own 2017-04-18 18:01:52 +02:00
tty_jobctrl.c tty: split job control support into a file of its own 2017-04-18 18:01:52 +02:00
tty_ldisc.c TTY/Serial patches for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-03 20:04:16 -07:00
tty_ldsem.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the get_task_struct()/put_task_struct() and related APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:40 +01:00
tty_mutex.c
tty_port.c Revert "tty: fix port buffer locking" 2017-06-04 10:23:25 +02:00