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Eric W. Biederman 311fc65c9f pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER
The implementation of TIOCGPTPEER has two issues.

When /dev/ptmx (as opposed to /dev/pts/ptmx) is opened the wrong
vfsmount is passed to dentry_open.  Which results in the kernel displaying
the wrong pathname for the peer.

The second is simply by caching the vfsmount and dentry of the peer it leaves
them open, in a way they were not previously Which because of the inreased
reference counts can cause unnecessary behaviour differences resulting in
regressions.

To fix these move the ioctl into tty_io.c at a generic level allowing
the ioctl to have access to the struct file on which the ioctl is
being called.  This allows the path of the slave to be derived when
opening the slave through TIOCGPTPEER instead of requiring the path to
the slave be cached.  Thus removing the need for caching the path.

A new function devpts_ptmx_path is factored out of devpts_acquire and
used to implement a function devpts_mntget.   The new function devpts_mntget
takes a filp to perform the lookup on and fsi so that it can confirm
that the superblock that is found by devpts_ptmx_path is the proper superblock.

v2: Lots of fixes to make the code actually work
v3: Suggestions by Linus
    - Removed the unnecessary initialization of filp in ptm_open_peer
    - Simplified devpts_ptmx_path as gotos are no longer required

[ This is the fix for the issue that was reverted in commit
  143c97cc65, but this time without breaking 'pbuilder' due to
  increased reference counts   - Linus ]

Fixes: 54ebbfb160 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-24 13:23:03 -07:00
arch Late arm64 fixes: 2017-08-23 12:05:46 -07:00
block blk-mq-pci: add a fallback when pci_irq_get_affinity returns NULL 2017-08-18 08:08:14 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-08-21 13:16:27 -07:00
drivers pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER 2017-08-24 13:23:03 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER 2017-08-24 13:23:03 -07:00
include pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER 2017-08-24 13:23:03 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe 2017-08-21 12:47:31 -07:00
lib kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes 2017-08-18 12:35:02 +02:00
mm Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
net ipv6: repair fib6 tree in failure case 2017-08-20 20:06:56 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts parse-maintainers: Move matching sections from MAINTAINERS 2017-08-08 11:16:14 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ALSA: emu10k1: Fix forgotten user-copy conversion in init code 2017-08-18 10:59:02 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-08-21 13:16:27 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-08-20 09:07:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc6 2017-08-20 14:13:52 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
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