linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty: Fix two reported pid leaks

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Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:45:44 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tty: Fix two reported pid leaks

These leaks were reported by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marians@...il.com>
and I have been able to very by inspection they are possible.

When converting tty_io.c to store pids as struct pid pointers instead
of pid_t values it appears I overlooked two places where we stop using
the pid value.  The very obvious one is in do_tty_hangup, and the one
the less obvious one in __proc_set_tty.

When looking into the code __proc_set_tty only has pids that need to
be put because of failures of other parts of the code to properly
perform hangup processing.   Fixing the leak here in __proc_set_tty
is easy and obviously correct so I am doing that first.

Fixing the places that should be performing hangup processing is much
less obviously correct.  So those I'm aiming those patches at -mm.
for now, so the can age a while before they are merged.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index e453268..7a32df5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1376,6 +1376,8 @@ static void do_tty_hangup(struct work_struct *work)
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

 	tty->flags = 0;
+	put_pid(tty->session);
+	put_pid(tty->pgrp);
 	tty->session = NULL;
 	tty->pgrp = NULL;
 	tty->ctrl_status = 0;
@@ -3841,6 +3843,9 @@ static struct pid *__proc_set_tty(struct task_struct *tsk, struct tty_struct *tt
 {
 	struct pid *old_pgrp;
 	if (tty) {
+		/* We should not have a session or pgrp to here but.... */
+		put_pid(tty->session);
+		put_pid(tty->pgrp);
 		tty->session = get_pid(task_session(tsk));
 		tty->pgrp = get_pid(task_pgrp(tsk));
 	}
-- 
1.5.0.g53756

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