From 24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:59:28 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Alan Cox Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_io.c') diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 150e4f747c7..4f1fc81112e 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -1295,8 +1295,7 @@ static int tty_driver_install_tty(struct tty_driver *driver, * * Locking: tty_mutex for now */ -static void tty_driver_remove_tty(struct tty_driver *driver, - struct tty_struct *tty) +void tty_driver_remove_tty(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty) { if (driver->ops->remove) driver->ops->remove(driver, tty); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2