From 1f55c718c290616889c04946864a13ef30f64929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Herton R. Krzesinski" Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:56:58 -0200 Subject: pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+ Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/devpts_fs.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/devpts_fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/devpts_fs.h b/include/linux/devpts_fs.h index 251a2090a554..e0ee0b3000b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/devpts_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/devpts_fs.h @@ -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) { -- cgit v1.2.3