devpts: if initialization failed, don't crash when opening /dev/ptmx
If devpts failed to initialize, it would store an ERR_PTR in the global devpts_mnt. A subsequent open of /dev/ptmx would call devpts_new_index, which would dereference devpts_mnt and crash. Avoid storing invalid values in devpts_mnt; leave it NULL instead. Make both devpts_new_index and devpts_pty_new fail gracefully with ENODEV in that case, which then becomes the return value to the userspace open call on /dev/ptmx. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded static] Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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