Commit a40b6fea authored by Herton R. Krzesinski's avatar Herton R. Krzesinski Committed by Luis Henriques

pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close

commit 1f55c718 upstream.

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: default avatarHerton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent 0efc1c2d
......@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static void pty_unix98_shutdown(struct tty_struct *tty)
else
ptmx_inode = tty->link->driver_data;
devpts_kill_index(ptmx_inode, tty->index);
iput(ptmx_inode); /* drop reference we acquired at ptmx_open */
devpts_del_ref(ptmx_inode);
}
static const struct tty_operations ptm_unix98_ops = {
......@@ -720,9 +720,12 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
* 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
* 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.
*/
ihold(inode);
devpts_add_ref(inode);
tty_add_file(tty, filp);
......
......@@ -569,6 +569,26 @@ void devpts_kill_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode, int idx)
mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
}
/*
* pty code needs to hold extra references in case of last /dev/tty close
*/
void devpts_add_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
{
struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
ihold(ptmx_inode);
}
void devpts_del_ref(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
{
struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(ptmx_inode);
iput(ptmx_inode);
deactivate_super(sb);
}
/**
* devpts_pty_new -- create a new inode in /dev/pts/
* @ptmx_inode: inode of the master
......
......@@ -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)
{
......
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