linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] tty: release_one

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Message-ID: <20100402160512.GB19920@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:05:12 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids

release_one_tty(tty) can be called when tty still has a reference
to pgrp/session. In this case we leak the pid.

The patch needs the ack from someone who understand tty magic.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---

 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- TTT/drivers/char/tty_io.c~TTY_PID_LEAK	2010-03-17 16:00:59.000000000 +0100
+++ TTT/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2010-04-02 17:23:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -1423,6 +1423,8 @@ static void release_one_tty(struct work_
 	list_del_init(&tty->tty_files);
 	file_list_unlock();
 
+	put_pid(tty->pgrp);
+	put_pid(tty->session);
 	free_tty_struct(tty);
 }
 

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