devpts: clean up interface to pty drivers

This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that

    struct inode *ptmx_inode

be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.

By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward.  In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.

The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:

 - the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
   instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.

   NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
   as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
   internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
   way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.

 - the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
   also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.

   So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
   ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
   (devpts_put_ref()).

 - the pty master "tty->driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
   not the ptmx inode.

 - because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
   base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
   gets the ref on the superblock.

 - the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
   that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
   quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
   to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
   straightforward.

In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.

The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/.  And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.

This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.

Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c
index e16a49b507ef..0058d9fbf931 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -663,14 +663,14 @@ static int pty_unix98_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
 /* this is called once with whichever end is closed last */
 static void pty_unix98_remove(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-	struct inode *ptmx_inode;
+	struct pts_fs_info *fsi;
 
 	if (tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
-		ptmx_inode = tty->driver_data;
+		fsi = tty->driver_data;
 	else
-		ptmx_inode = tty->link->driver_data;
-	devpts_kill_index(ptmx_inode, tty->index);
-	devpts_del_ref(ptmx_inode);
+		fsi = tty->link->driver_data;
+	devpts_kill_index(fsi, tty->index);
+	devpts_put_ref(fsi);
 }
 
 static const struct tty_operations ptm_unix98_ops = {
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ static const struct tty_operations pty_unix98_ops = {
 
 static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
+	struct pts_fs_info *fsi;
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 	struct inode *slave_inode;
 	int retval;
@@ -734,47 +735,41 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
 
+	fsi = devpts_get_ref(inode, filp);
+	retval = -ENODEV;
+	if (!fsi)
+		goto out_free_file;
+
 	/* find a device that is not in use. */
 	mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex);
-	index = devpts_new_index(inode);
-	if (index < 0) {
-		retval = index;
-		mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
-		goto err_file;
-	}
-
+	index = devpts_new_index(fsi);
 	mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);
 
-	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
-	tty = tty_init_dev(ptm_driver, index);
+	retval = index;
+	if (index < 0)
+		goto out_put_ref;
 
-	if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
-		retval = PTR_ERR(tty);
-		goto out;
-	}
 
+	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
+	tty = tty_init_dev(ptm_driver, index);
 	/* The tty returned here is locked so we can safely
 	   drop the mutex */
 	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
 
-	set_bit(TTY_PTY_LOCK, &tty->flags); /* LOCK THE SLAVE */
-	tty->driver_data = inode;
+	retval = PTR_ERR(tty);
+	if (IS_ERR(tty))
+		goto out;
 
 	/*
-	 * In the case where all references to ptmx inode are dropped and we
-	 * still have /dev/tty opened pointing to the master/slave pair (ptmx
-	 * is closed/released before /dev/tty), we must make sure that the inode
-	 * is still valid when we call the final pty_unix98_shutdown, thus we
-	 * hold an additional reference to the ptmx inode. For the same /dev/tty
-	 * last close case, we also need to make sure the super_block isn't
-	 * destroyed (devpts instance unmounted), before /dev/tty is closed and
-	 * on its release devpts_kill_index is called.
+	 * From here on out, the tty is "live", and the index and
+	 * fsi will be killed/put by the tty_release()
 	 */
-	devpts_add_ref(inode);
+	set_bit(TTY_PTY_LOCK, &tty->flags); /* LOCK THE SLAVE */
+	tty->driver_data = fsi;
 
 	tty_add_file(tty, filp);
 
-	slave_inode = devpts_pty_new(inode,
+	slave_inode = devpts_pty_new(fsi,
 			MKDEV(UNIX98_PTY_SLAVE_MAJOR, index), index,
 			tty->link);
 	if (IS_ERR(slave_inode)) {
@@ -793,12 +788,14 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	return 0;
 err_release:
 	tty_unlock(tty);
+	// This will also put-ref the fsi
 	tty_release(inode, filp);
 	return retval;
 out:
-	mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
-	devpts_kill_index(inode, index);
-err_file:
+	devpts_kill_index(fsi, index);
+out_put_ref:
+	devpts_put_ref(fsi);
+out_free_file:
 	tty_free_file(filp);
 	return retval;
 }