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 --- drivers/tty/pty.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/tty/pty.c') diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c index 3b5cde833ee5..2348fa613707 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/pty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ 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 = { @@ -785,9 +785,12 @@ 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); -- cgit v1.2.3