linux-kernel - Re: Does anyone care about a race free ptsname?

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:18:26 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, security@...ian.org,
	"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"security@...ntu.com >> security" <security@...ntu.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Does anyone care about a race free ptsname?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> What do you think of the idea of TIOCPTSOPEN (or whatever) to get a file
> descriptor for the slave device given the master device?  Then we can
> use realpath() or a readlink on /proc/self/fd/# to get the pathname if
> needed.

That sounds reasonable to me.

> (Incidentally, we added getcwd() as a system call.  Should we add
> [f]realpath() as a system call too?)

Probably a good idea. It's kind of silly to have to do a sprintf
followed by a readlink().

              Linus