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    tty: Serialize proc_set_tty() with tty_lock · e218eb32
    Peter Hurley authored
    Setting the controlling terminal for a session occurs with either
    the first open of a non-pty master tty or with ioctl(TIOCSCTTY).
    Since only the session leader can set the controlling terminal for
    a session (and the session leader cannot change), it is not
    necessary to prevent a process from attempting to set different
    ttys as the controlling terminal concurrently.
    
    So it's only necessary to prevent the same tty from becoming the
    controlling terminal for different session leaders. The tty_lock()
    is sufficient to prevent concurrent proc_set_tty() for the same
    tty.
    
    Remove the tty_mutex lock region; add tty_lock() to tiocsctty().
    
    While this may appear to allow a race condition between opening
    the controlling tty via tty_open_current_tty() and stealing the
    controlling tty via ioctl(TIOCSCTTY, 1), that race condition already
    existed. Even if the tty_mutex prevented stealing the controlling tty
    while tty_open_current_tty() returned the original controlling tty,
    it cannot prevent stealing the controlling tty before tty_open() returns.
    Thus, tty_open() could already return a no-longer-controlling tty when
    opening /dev/tty.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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