devpts_get_tty() should validate inode
devpts_get_tty() assumes that the inode passed in is associated with a valid pty. But if the only reference to the pty is via a bind-mount, the inode passed to devpts_get_tty() while valid, would refer to a pty that no longer exists. With a lot of debug effort, Grzegorz Nosek developed a small program (see below) to reproduce a crash on recent kernels. This crash is a regression introduced by the commit: commit 527b3e47 Author: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon Oct 13 10:43:08 2008 +0100 To fix, ensure that the dentry associated with the inode has not yet been deleted/unhashed by devpts_pty_kill(). See also: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-July/019273.html tty-bug.c: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <fcntl.h> #include <sched.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #include <sys/signal.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <linux/fs.h> void dummy(int sig) { } s...
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