TTY: make tty_add_file non-failing

commit fa90e1c935472281de314e6d7c9a37db9cbc2e4e upstream.

If tty_add_file fails at the point it is now, we have to revert all
the changes we did to the tty. It means either decrease all refcounts
if this was a tty reopen or delete the tty if it was newly allocated.

There was a try to fix this in v3.0-rc2 using tty_release in 0259894c7
(TTY: fix fail path in tty_open). But instead it introduced a NULL
dereference. It's because tty_release dereferences
filp->private_data, but that one is set even in our tty_add_file. And
when tty_add_file fails, it's still NULL/garbage. Hence tty_release
cannot be called there.

To circumvent the original leak (and the current NULL deref) we split
tty_add_file into two functions, making the latter non-failing. In
that case we may do the former early in open, where handling failures
is easy. The latter stays as it is now. So there is no change in
functionality.

The original bug (leak) was introduced by f573bd176 (tty: Remove
__GFP_NOFAIL from tty_add_file()). Thanks Dan for reporting this.

Later, we may split tty_release into more functions and call only some
of them in this fail path instead. (If at all possible.)

Introduced-in: v2.6.37-rc2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c
index e809e9d4683c6d82197cbd569c12b1375df8be99..696e8510a5f48ca3386f1f8537857b71302da3d8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -670,12 +670,18 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 
        nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
 
+       retval = tty_alloc_file(filp);
+       if (retval)
+               return retval;
+
        /* find a device that is not in use. */
        tty_lock();
        index = devpts_new_index(inode);
        tty_unlock();
-       if (index < 0)
-               return index;
+       if (index < 0) {
+               retval = index;
+               goto err_file;
+       }
 
        mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
        tty_lock();
@@ -689,9 +695,7 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 
        set_bit(TTY_PTY_LOCK, &tty->flags); /* LOCK THE SLAVE */
 
-       retval = tty_add_file(tty, filp);
-       if (retval)
-               goto out;
+       tty_add_file(tty, filp);
 
        retval = devpts_pty_new(inode, tty->link);
        if (retval)
@@ -710,6 +714,8 @@ out2:
 out:
        devpts_kill_index(inode, index);
        tty_unlock();
+err_file:
+       tty_free_file(filp);
        return retval;
 }
 

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 54b3cc477852e1d6829f94f55ad157e77acfe1bc..1a890e270be0e17d5ff2356d4bee56766619ad00 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ static inline struct tty_struct *file_tty(struct file *file)
        return ((struct tty_file_private *)file->private_data)->tty;
 }
 
-/* Associate a new file with the tty structure */
-int tty_add_file(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
+int tty_alloc_file(struct file *file)
 {
        struct tty_file_private *priv;
 
@@ -203,15 +202,36 @@ int tty_add_file(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
        if (!priv)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       file->private_data = priv;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+/* Associate a new file with the tty structure */
+void tty_add_file(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
+{
+       struct tty_file_private *priv = file->private_data;
+
        priv->tty = tty;
        priv->file = file;
-       file->private_data = priv;
 
        spin_lock(&tty_files_lock);
        list_add(&priv->list, &tty->tty_files);
        spin_unlock(&tty_files_lock);
+}
 
-       return 0;
+/**
+ * tty_free_file - free file->private_data
+ *
+ * This shall be used only for fail path handling when tty_add_file was not
+ * called yet.
+ */
+void tty_free_file(struct file *file)
+{
+       struct tty_file_private *priv = file->private_data;
+
+       file->private_data = NULL;
+       kfree(priv);
 }
 
 /* Delete file from its tty */
@@ -222,8 +242,7 @@ void tty_del_file(struct file *file)
        spin_lock(&tty_files_lock);
        list_del(&priv->list);
        spin_unlock(&tty_files_lock);
-       file->private_data = NULL;
-       kfree(priv);
+       tty_free_file(file);
 }
 
 
@@ -1811,6 +1830,10 @@ static int tty_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
        nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
 
 retry_open:
+       retval = tty_alloc_file(filp);
+       if (retval)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        noctty = filp->f_flags & O_NOCTTY;
        index  = -1;
        retval = 0;
@@ -1823,6 +1846,7 @@ retry_open:
                if (!tty) {
                        tty_unlock();
                        mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+                       tty_free_file(filp);
                        return -ENXIO;
                }
                driver = tty_driver_kref_get(tty->driver);
@@ -1855,6 +1879,7 @@ retry_open:
                }
                tty_unlock();
                mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+               tty_free_file(filp);
                return -ENODEV;
        }
 
@@ -1862,6 +1887,7 @@ retry_open:
        if (!driver) {
                tty_unlock();
                mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+               tty_free_file(filp);
                return -ENODEV;
        }
 got_driver:
@@ -1873,6 +1899,7 @@ got_driver:
                        tty_unlock();
                        mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
                        tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
+                       tty_free_file(filp);
                        return PTR_ERR(tty);
                }
        }
@@ -1888,15 +1915,11 @@ got_driver:
        tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
        if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
                tty_unlock();
+               tty_free_file(filp);
                return PTR_ERR(tty);
        }
 
-       retval = tty_add_file(tty, filp);
-       if (retval) {
-               tty_unlock();
-               tty_release(inode, filp);
-               return retval;
-       }
+       tty_add_file(tty, filp);
 
        check_tty_count(tty, "tty_open");
        if (tty->driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&

diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 5f2ede82b3d67e5223089f6db9cec489267991ef..d553ea4fe094f3c26c959e3138919799f48abebe 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -473,7 +473,9 @@ extern void proc_clear_tty(struct task_struct *p);
 extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void);
 extern void tty_default_fops(struct file_operations *fops);
 extern struct tty_struct *alloc_tty_struct(void);
-extern int tty_add_file(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file);
+extern int tty_alloc_file(struct file *file);
+extern void tty_add_file(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file);
+extern void tty_free_file(struct file *file);
 extern void free_tty_struct(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void initialize_tty_struct(struct tty_struct *tty,
                struct tty_driver *driver, int idx);