pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close
[ Upstream commit 1f55c718c290616889c04946864a13ef30f64929 ]
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 <herton@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c
index 2c7e0ed..5222805 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
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 = {
@@ -760,9 +760,12 @@
* 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);