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authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2011-08-10 16:59:28 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-23 21:10:38 +0400
commit24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24 (patch)
tree3dfb2053f7785508304fd29d6c1bb6e6a42a7d5c /include/linux/tty_driver.h
parentdbb3b1ca5609d1f3848cd387d06cc60aaacf7f98 (diff)
downloadlinux-24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24.tar.xz
TTY: pty, fix pty counting
tty_operations->remove is normally called like: queue_release_one_tty ->tty_shutdown ->tty_driver_remove_tty ->tty_operations->remove However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if tty_operations->shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not. pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as ->shutdown. So tty_operations->remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in /proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr. I see this was already reported at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370 But it was not fixed since then. This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in ->install. We allocate there another tty (so-called tty->link). So ->install is called once, but ->remove twice, for both tty and tty->link. The fix here is to count both tty and tty->link and divide the count by 2 for user. And to have ->remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations->shutdown). While at it, let's document that when ->shutdown is defined, tty_shutdown() is not called. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 9deeac855240..ecdaeb98b293 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
*
* This routine is called synchronously when a particular tty device
* is closed for the last time freeing up the resources.
+ * Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
+ * This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
+ * via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
*
*
* void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);