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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2016-06-02 10:29:47 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-05 10:36:01 -0700
commiteedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6 (patch)
tree0e37f0a0c6fd15f7528aa3d3bfaec5685f083282 /fs/namei.c
parent049ec1b5a76d34a6980cccdb7c0baeb4eed7a993 (diff)
downloadlinux-eedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6.tar.gz
devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.
The /dev/ptmx device node is changed to lookup the directory entry "pts"
in the same directory as the /dev/ptmx device node was opened in.  If
there is a "pts" entry and that entry is a devpts filesystem /dev/ptmx
uses that filesystem.  Otherwise the open of /dev/ptmx fails.

The DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES configuration option is removed, so that
userspace can now safely depend on each mount of devpts creating a new
instance of the filesystem.

Each mount of devpts is now a separate and equal filesystem.

Reserved ttys are now available to all instances of devpts where the
mounter is in the initial mount namespace.

A new vfs helper path_pts is introduced that finds a directory entry
named "pts" in the directory of the passed in path, and changes the
passed in path to point to it.  The helper path_pts uses a function
path_parent_directory that was factored out of follow_dotdot.

In the implementation of devpts:
 - devpts_mnt is killed as it is no longer meaningful if all mounts of
   devpts are equal.
 - pts_sb_from_inode is replaced by just inode->i_sb as all cached
   inodes in the tty layer are now from the devpts filesystem.
 - devpts_add_ref is rolled into the new function devpts_ptmx.  And the
   unnecessary inode hold is removed.
 - devpts_del_ref is renamed devpts_release and reduced to just a
   deacrivate_super.
 - The newinstance mount option continues to be accepted but is now
   ignored.

In devpts_fs.h definitions for when !CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS are removed as
they are never used.

Documentation/filesystems/devices.txt is updated to describe the current
situation.

This has been verified to work properly on openwrt-15.05, centos5,
centos6, centos7, debian-6.0.2, debian-7.9, debian-8.2, ubuntu-14.04.3,
ubuntu-15.10, fedora23, magia-5, mint-17.3, opensuse-42.1,
slackware-14.1, gentoo-20151225 (13.0?), archlinux-2015-12-01.  With the
caveat that on centos6 and on slackware-14.1 that there wind up being
two instances of the devpts filesystem mounted on /dev/pts, the lower
copy does not end up getting used.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c49
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 4c4f95ac8aa5..6a82fb7e2127 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1416,21 +1416,28 @@ static void follow_mount(struct path *path)
 	}
 }
 
+static int path_parent_directory(struct path *path)
+{
+	struct dentry *old = path->dentry;
+	/* rare case of legitimate dget_parent()... */
+	path->dentry = dget_parent(path->dentry);
+	dput(old);
+	if (unlikely(!path_connected(path)))
+		return -ENOENT;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	while(1) {
-		struct dentry *old = nd->path.dentry;
-
 		if (nd->path.dentry == nd->root.dentry &&
 		    nd->path.mnt == nd->root.mnt) {
 			break;
 		}
 		if (nd->path.dentry != nd->path.mnt->mnt_root) {
-			/* rare case of legitimate dget_parent()... */
-			nd->path.dentry = dget_parent(nd->path.dentry);
-			dput(old);
-			if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path)))
-				return -ENOENT;
+			int ret = path_parent_directory(&nd->path);
+			if (ret)
+				return ret;
 			break;
 		}
 		if (!follow_up(&nd->path))
@@ -2514,6 +2521,34 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len_unlocked(const char *name,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_one_len_unlocked);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS
+int path_pts(struct path *path)
+{
+	/* Find something mounted on "pts" in the same directory as
+	 * the input path.
+	 */
+	struct dentry *child, *parent;
+	struct qstr this;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = path_parent_directory(path);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	parent = path->dentry;
+	this.name = "pts";
+	this.len = 3;
+	child = d_hash_and_lookup(parent, &this);
+	if (!child)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	path->dentry = child;
+	dput(parent);
+	follow_mount(path);
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 int user_path_at_empty(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
 		 struct path *path, int *empty)
 {